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FG to close borders during polls

By Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja February 8, 2019


The federal government will temporarily close borders during the general elections to guarantee more security, Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdrahaman Dambazau (rtd) has stated.

He vowed that security operatives will do everything possible to secure borders especially during the elections.

Dambazau gave the assurance while launching the situation room of the Nigeria Internal Security and Public Safety Alert System (NISPSAS) on Friday.

NISPSAS is an integrated and single mobile application developed to assist the public access prompt response to emergencies and public safety concern the Federal Ministry of Interior situation coordination.

He said: “I want to assure you that we are very conscious of our borders particularly now and everything we can do to protect our borders during elections we will do.

“During the periods of elections all the borders will be temporarily closed till the elections are over.

“When we came in in 2015 one of the challenges we met was this lack of coordination among our security agencies.

“Lack of collaboration and cooperation and we tried to look at various ways to make things possible because without this collaboration, there so many implications.

“One of them is that you cannot really coordinate their activities well another disadvantage is the fact that you cannot have that synergy and they are bound to waste resources.

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He added: “This will make them not to achieve the objectives of public safety and internal security which is the major mandate of this ministry.

“This is how we thought of having a situation room within the ministry that will link up to all the services so that we can have to monitor their activities anytime.

“We embarked on this project since 2016. This has digitalised their activities. Immigration can also with this monitor activities at the land borders and also the fire service could be able to create an alert system whereby if there is fire any part of the country they can monitor and respond. We should have the capacity to respond to incidents.

“I thank God that today we are launching this internal security and public safety alert system which linked to all the services. This app is user-friendly. The public can report any incident using this app.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/fg-to-close-borders-during-polls/

Is this not Nigeria? The borders in Northern Nigeria will be wide open as the Atlantic Ocean for alien voters to troop in.

They said apc is planning to bring in foreigners to vote, now fg has just announced the borders will be closed to prevent such, they still wail.

Pdp complained that its supporters are being disenfranchised because they have not collected their pvcs (any reasonable voter should have done that), inec extended the date, they said it will favour northerners. The same northerners they claimed have athiefculated.

It is very clear to everyone that all the likely excuses pdpigz and its pig supporters will present as reasons for woeful failure is being blocked by the fg but expectedly, they are still wailing.

I'm sure they are 100% sure this election is a walkover for buhari but as usual, they prefer to live in self delusion probably for the Cameroonian thief to keep spending till 16 Feb.

I still wonder how these people think a thief like atiku can come close to buhari in a free and fair election.

Empty promise.There is no border in the north.Citizens of neighboring countries enter into Nigeria without hindrance.No barricade or fence.

Atiku how market?

After Feb 2019, you'll start respecting Yorubas as master strategists.

Talk about rushing to shut the barn doors after the horse has bolted!

Ipob pigs oya come and cry o, the borders will be close. So u can't say we are importing people from Niger and chad again.


I assured u Atikulooters and Ipob pigs that Atiku will be roundedly and comprehensively defeated at the poll.

OkaNaUbe:
Is this not Nigeria? The borders in Northern Nigeria will be wide open as the Atlantic Ocean for alien voters to troop in.

They're just doing eye-service (abi na ear-service) for the benefit of the foreign election observers in the country!

Those of us on ground know it's all empty soundbites....hot air!

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sogodihno:
Ipob pigs oya come and cry o, the borders will be close. So u can't say we are importing people from Niger and chad again.


I assured u Atikulooters and Ipob pigs that Atiku will be roundedly and comprehensively defeated at the poll.

Ode, thats why you people are called Zombies, because you reason with your anus. CIA satellite already shows mass movement of mercenaries and weapons from the chad area into Nigeria aided by people in this government, did you not read it on this forum or your foolishness has no cure?

https://www.nairaland.com/5003284/2019-cia-warns-massive-invasion

This move is simply medicine after death.

So archaic

We are not moving forward at all

May be if Buhari signed electoral bill all this nonsense won’t be necessary

cucumbae:
Empty promise.There is no border in the north.Citizens of neighboring countries enter into Nigeria without hindrance.No barricade or fence.

Are you aware of the existence of the Federal Government Border Patrol Team that secures our border posts 247?