Controller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service, Mrs. Rose Uzoma
Nigeria Immigration Service has uncovered about 1,487 illegal routes to the country.
The NIS also identified 84 regular borders to the country.
The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro,
stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while responding to questions on the
porous nature of the nation’s borders.
The service, he added, had taken steps
by patrolling the routes in order to check the illegal movement of
people and goods into the country.
Moro said, “Since I assumed office, we
have taken deliberate steps in conjunction with National Boundaries
Commission to identify our borders and the routes that lead to Nigeria
from other countries, and in the process, we have been able to identify
84 regular borders and over 1,487 irregular routes to Nigeria.”
The minister, who said the President
Goodluck Jonathan administration was battling with the security
challenges facing the nation, noted that the government had taken
proactive steps to control the influx of illegal aliens into the
country.
He added that plans were underway to use
the Public Private Partnership model to demarcate further Nigeria
borders post with her neighbouring countries to ensure better border
management.
The minister said, “We are contemplating
using the Public Private Partnership model to see how we can construct
graders around our borders. As it is today, if you go to many of our
land borders, you hardly can define when you are in Nigeria and when you
are out of it, and that is because of the lack of physical structure
that will separate Nigeria from the other countries.”
Moro promised that within the year,
construction work would start at some of the border posts to ensure
effective patrols and better border management.
On the influx of aliens into the
country, the Minister said though the problem was not peculiar to
Nigeria, the NIS had not relented in its responsibility of ensuring that
unauthorised persons were eased out of the country.
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