The acting Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS), Mrs Caroline Wuraola Adepoju has disclosed plans by the border security and migration management body to acquire aircraft, helicopters and drones for surveillance and aerial monitoring.
The acting C.G. disclosed this yesterday in Lagos at a retreat organised by NIS Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Command Lagos, themed: “One Impression: inter-agency collaboration.”
According to Mrs Adepoju this mobile critical infrastructure would go a long way in enhancing the NIS capabilities to discharge its core mandate of monitoring the movement of persons across the country’s land and sea borders.
She stated further that the acquisition of the equipment has already been captured in the 2024 budget of the Ministry of Interior.
“We are going to buy aircraft, we will buy drones, we are going to buy helicopters to ensure that we effectively do aerial border management.”
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Besides the procurement of operational equipment, she said the NIS continues to invest in other technologies to drive the production of travel documents and other initiatives that would boost the security at the country’ s borders.
Mrs Adepoju said from next year, the NIS will be deploying electronic gates at the airports to ease the facilitation of passengers coming into and going out of the country.
She explained that the e-gate implementation, scheduled for early 2024, aims to streamline entry for Nigerians through biometric identity verification and minimising the need for direct interaction with immigration officers.
She reiterated: “Very soon, NIS will be deploying the e-gate to make it seamless for our nationals to come in, make it less stressful. In the early part of 2024 we will deploy the e-gate ensuring that our MIDAS will improve on them, ensuring our borders, air, land and sea are fortified.
With “the electronic gate, for example our nationals may not need, except they are persons of interest, to be attended to by immigration officers. “
