Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff, says 137 out of about 261 borders in the north-east and north-west regions of the country don’t have any form of security. <\/p>\n
He said the porous nature of the borders has contributed to deepening security crisis in the country as terrorists waltz into Nigeria to wreak havoc. <\/p>\n
He spoke on Thursday while delivering a lecture on \u201csecurity, defence & development in Nigeria\u201d at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in Lagos.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur borders are largely unmanned. The penetrability of our vast unmanned land areas \u2013 the north-east and north-west zones, particularly Borno, Yobe, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina states \u2013 with neigbouring countries such as Niger Republic and Chad among others has continued to be a key source of criminality and violent crimes in those parts of the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe porous nature of the borders has made it easily accessible for terrorists and bandits to enter the country to commit mayhem. For instance, there are about 364 approved international border points in Nigeria with about 261 in the north-east and north-west regions. Out of this 261 only 124 are manned leaving the remaining 137 unmanned by security agencies. Intelligence suggests that violence actors are using some of these normal border points to move freely from countries into Nigeria to cause mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n
The defence chief called for the use of technology as a tool in strengthening the Nigerian borders, in addition to the erection of physical structures and an effective management.<\/p>\n
He said there is a need to have a broad based integrated border management system to be established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucky Irabor, chief of defence staff, says 137 out of about 261 borders in the north-east and north-west regions of the country don’t have any form of security. He said the porous nature of the borders has contributed to deepening security crisis in the country as terrorists waltz into Nigeria to wreak havoc. He spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":134682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"double-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[450,83,39813,1507],"class_list":["post-212717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-borders","tag-insecurity","tag-irabor","tag-military"],"yoast_head":"\n