National Telescope national telescope newspaper
The House of Representatives has called on the Nigeria Customs Service to deploy modern technology to secure the nation’s borders with neighbouring countries.
The call followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Representative Obiageli Orogbu (Anambra State) on the need to employ modern technology to secure the nation’s borders.
The House mandated the Nigeria Customs Service to beef up border security with modern technological gadgets and directed its Committees on National Security and Intelligence and Customs and Excise to ensure implementation and report back within four weeks.
Orogbu noted that there are over 320 illegal routes into Nigeria, which serve as channels for the influx of inadmissible aliens and goods, and advocated for the deployment of technologies like electronic sensors, video monitors, and night vision scopes to detect illegal entries.
