The federal government is to establish a Command and Control Centre to check irregular migration into the country, the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has disclosed.
He made the disclosure at the induction ceremony for operational officers of the Command and Control Centre for Regular Migration in Abuja.
Tunji-Ojo explained, “What we are doing today is the regular migration command and control centre. Very soon, we will come up with the irregular migration command and control centre.”
He assured that very soon the president would be commissioning the e-gates in the international airports, saying that they would not just rely on the airports but ensure that land and marine borders have anyone coming in pre-profiled.
According to him, it is a scheme where there is no margin of error, where one cannot do guesswork, where one has to be mentally alert and ready to sacrifice for the sake of the fatherland.
He said that security must be 100 percent accurate and not 99.9 percent, stating that the 0.1 percent inaccuracy can destroy the 99 percent, stressing that they are providing round-the-clock power supply because they cannot afford to have downtime.
With the infrastructure in the command and control centre, the Minister explained that it means that nobody, not a single person, should be able to come into Nigeria without being pre-profiled, assuring that the government has equipped the officers to do objective screening and no longer subjective screening.
On her part, Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, said 123 officers and men who scaled through rigorous fundamental training were selected to work at the centre.