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By CONNOR COLLINS

Terrorist organizations survive and prosper in countries with ineffective, porous, and unsecure borders. Organizations like Al Shabaab in Somalia, the Haqqani Network in Pakistan, National Liberation Army in Venezuela, and Boko Haram in Nigeria use weak and porous borders to evade the grasp of whichever government they are attempting to subvert. They will often establish training camps in the relative protection of an unstable country unable to secure its borders, then conduct attacks in the neighboring countries. Boko Haram has flourished in West Africa due to the lack of border security in the region. The organization uses the unsecured borders of Nigeria to conduct operations in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, acting as a destabilizing force in these neighboring countries. These countries must start taking border security seriously if they wish to defeat Boko Haram.

The lack of a solid border and border security apparatus allows for cross-border illicit actions, such as the drug and arms trade, and human trafficking. According to Polaris, there are approximately 40.3 million victims of human trafficking, and in some parts of West Africa, almost 100% of the victims are children. Human trafficking is a major source of revenue for Boko Haram. Moreover, the absence of a secure border allows terrorist organizations to cross legal and geographical boundaries with impunity, hindering any one nation from capturing or defeating Boko Haram fighters and perpetuating the suffering of the local populations. Therefore, for these nations to successfully defeat Boko Haram, they must mount a closely coordinated effort.

An effective counterinsurgency policy requires West African states to execute a wide variety of programs concurrently and successfully. These programs include those that focus on local and national security, health, welfare, and (re)education, among other aspects. In the conflict with Boko Haram, border security plays a key role in finally defeating Boko Haram. Nigeria and other West African nations do not have the infrastructure nor the manpower to constantly patrol their border regions. Therefore, Nigeria should incorporate a network of electronic detection systems, such as radars, ground based sensors, cameras, and drones in select regions. This targeted network will reduce the workload required to surveil the border regions, while keeping costs relatively limited. Nigeria should then begin investing in physical instrastructure, establishing checkpoints and forward operating bases in the remote regions, allowing for a rapid response to any triggered sensor. Finally, Nigeria should increase military patrols in high threat regions, to demonstrate a consistant presence and control that spans the border region. This hybrid approach of technical and physical security infrastructure, and roaming patrols in targeted sections of the border reduces costs and workloads while improving effectiveness.

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The solutions mentioned here are some of the things the government is doing with Eborder plan. The author makes great suggestions Nigeria should introduce like
radars, ground based sensors, cameras, and drones in select regions. A few bases located hot spots like lake chad area are best.

The federal government did a bad job communicating their border security plan but it's a good policy. Its funny foreign media does better job at coming up with solutions. Even during the presidential debates the candidates could only talk about replacing security chiefs as their grand plan.

Sadly border commuinity that should notify Custums and Immigration of presence of Alliens are accomplices who speak the same language with the people accross the border.

An effective counterinsurgency policy requires West African states to execute a wide variety of programs concurrently and successfully. These programs include those that focus on local and national security, health, welfare, and (re)education, among other aspects.

I really dont know if the NE redevelopment commission has plan all of this. The re-education is vital in my opinion to make sure the next generation doesn't repeat these events. Other than that they'll need to get economy normalized then diversified. I've read food production reduced due to insurgents.

On the national security side Chatham house made a few good suggestions. Other stuff like decentralizing police wont be immediate since the NASS are dragging their feet. Ending security votes is must to increase security forces budget and reduce corruption associated with this. Sadly Buhari is uninterested...

Chatham House: Security reform suggestions

• End Security votes
•Create US-style inspector general offices tasked with exposing corruption, revealing waste and protecting whistle-blowers.
• Consolidate the numerous security agencies and integrate each of them into either the military and police.
• Consolidate Military support functions by creating joint combat support agencies that could help the force improve its dismal ratio of non-combat elements to frontline units.

Blue3k2:
The solutions mentioned here are some of the things the government is doing with Eborder plan. The author makes great suggestions Nigeria should introduce like
radars, ground based sensors, cameras, and drones in select regions. A few bases located hot spots like lake chad area are best.

The federal government did a bad job communicating their border security plan but it's a good policy. Its funny foreign media does better job at coming up with solutions. Even during the presidential debates the candidates could only talk about replacing security chiefs as their grand plan.

It was Pakistani Taliban militants coming through the porous borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan that frustrated America's effort in that country.

itsme01:



Sadly border commuinity that should notify Custums and Immigration of presence of Alliens are accomplices who speak the same language with the people accross the border.

That's where re-education comes in. Alot of them are cousins but they should be required to use legal channels to travel. If they're criminals they probably wont have an issue reporting. Its up to millitary to stomp them out.

grandstar:
It was Pakistani Taliban militants coming through the porous borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan that frustrated America's effort in that country.

That and all the covert gulf state money just like Nigeria. Saudi Arabia bankrolls these Salafi Jihadists including boko haram as I told.

Final bump

Border security solutions by CONNOR COLLINS:
• Incorporate a network of electronic detection systems, such as radars, ground based sensors, cameras, and drones in select regions. 

• Invest in physical instrastructure, establishing checkpoints and forward operating bases in the remote regions.

• Increase military patrols in high threat regions, to demonstrate a consistant presence and control that spans the border region.