THE acting Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Idris Jere, has said that the service’s e-border surveillance will be extended to the waterways.
Jere stated this during a visit to the NIS blue border formations in Oron and Ibaka areas of Akwa Ibom State.
He added that the ICT solutions are needed to improve the current security situation across the waterways.
The development comes days after the NIS said 84 border locations in Nigeria will soon be linked with e-border monitoring cameras to check issues of illegal immigrants and other criminal activities.
According to the NIS boss, the rising volume of migration activities along the nation’s international waterways measuring over 853 kilometres requires that closer attention is devoted to the sector for improved surveillance.
“The waterways of Oron and Ibaka areas, for instance, are accessible to countries such as Mali, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cameroon, among others, and so concerted efforts should be made to equip all the agencies along that corridor for good security cover, security surveillance for some inexplicable reasons,” he said.
