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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja, directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s borders.
He directed the service to ensure that criminals did not find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and carry out their criminality.
The President gave the directive in his speech at the virtual inauguration of the NIS Technology Building.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, titled ‘President Buhari directs Immigration Service to tighten security around borders, urges security outfits to raise performance’.
The President was quoted as also instructing all security agencies to raise their performance in protecting lives and property so that the country’s Global Security Index must be improved.
He promised that his administration would give the agencies the needed support for their operations.
Buhari also called on the NIS to collaborate with international security organisations like INTERPOL in safeguarding the borders.
He said, “As a security agency, I charge you to be relentless in carrying out your statutory duties of keeping our borders safe, while you ensure that criminal elements don’t find Nigeria as a safe haven to hide and perpetrate their criminality.
“I urge you to actively collaborate with international security organisations like the INTERPOL in safeguarding our borders. Remember that a safe border is a prerequisite for a safe nation.
“You must develop strong working relationships and ties with the international community and friendly nations as it relates to migration management; adopt and implement workable strategies from them, while also sharing your best practices.
“Frontline workers and operators should remember that they are our windows to the world. They must show the best face of Nigeria at all times.”
The President commended the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, for consistently pushing for the completion of the Technology Building, which will serve as the Command and Control Centre of the NIS, as well as the repository of personal data of Nigerians and expatriates resident in the country.
“This is in line with the vision of our administration to formulate and implement policies that will protect and enhance the lives and standards of living for Nigerians.” Buhari added.
“This administration is relentless in its avowed desire to create an enabling business environment that will usher in an economic boom for Nigerians and all those who do business with and in Nigeria.”
Buhari also congratulated all officers and men of the NIS for their dedication and work towards changing into a world class migration management agency.
Aregbesola in his remarks, was quoted as saying that all the security challenges facing NIgeria were temporal and surmountable, pointing out that the “weakest link” had been the land borders and the Technology Building would play a pivotal role in the control of illegal migration.
Aregbesola noted that the visa-on-arrival policy of the Federal Government would get proper documentation of all entrants and share such with international security structures to ensure tight surveillance and compliance.
He also announced a review period of stay from 90 days to 30 days adding that 50 per cent of all immigration personnel would now work at the country’s borders.
The Comptroller General of NIS, Muhammed Babandede, said the Technology Building remained the best project the service had ever initiated and completed since it was established in 1958.
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