A drastic rise in violence by terrorist groups globally has put an intense focus on border security to Many Countries to combat recent national security issues. The traditional approach to border monitoring includes surveillance by video cameras, ground sensors, land vehicles, and manned aircraft but these have become quite inadequate.
There is a need to identify challenges which a country encounters across the varying border conditions and introduce a framework to address these challenges. To ensure seamlessness in the legitimate movement of people and goods across the borders, the adoption of new technologies for border control and surveillance is of paramount importance.
Drones are a significant asset in border security as they allow for real-time reconnaissance, target acquisition, track movement of people and illegal activities via high-quality video feed. Drones mounted with thermal detection cameras are much superior at tracking irregular activities such as illegal border crossing attempts through dense woods or mountainous terrain as compared to stationary video cameras.
Drones flying at altitudes of 100 feet and far higher can cover broad swathes of land and quickly detect activities that might be missed by fixed or mobile ground sensors, particularly in remote or mountainous areas.
As Nigeria Implement the use of Drone in its Borders it will help to reduced the rate of Attack by the Militant Groups,Bandits and Bokom Harams.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of drones, aircraft and geospatial technology for the monitoring of borders, With the procurement and deployment of the e-Customs, the borders shall record a watertight security that will foreclose the need for the erection of physical walls.
This is coming on the heels of the joint operation border patrol code-named ‘EX-SWIFT RESPONSE.
The Ex-SWIFT RESPONSE, coordinated by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), comprises the Nigerian Police Force, Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the Nigerian Armed Forces and other security agencies to address trans-border security issues.
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller-General, Mohammed Babandede, disclosed in Abuja at the joint press briefing of the EX-SWIFT RESPONSE that President Buhari approved has enhanced the implementation of the ECOWAS protocol.
Drone surveillance creates new accountability mechanisms that obviate some visible signs of security such as fences, while also introducing an invisible security apparatus that extends beyond state boundaries. This will help Nigeria to curtailed it battered security records in the Borders and Internal security too.
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Drones are more time-efficient and cheaper to deploy than helicopters and can access places deemed too unsafe and high-risk for persons. Drone technology can provide security forces with a safer and foolproof mechanism to secure international and internal borders effectively.States Government of Nigeria should also buy into the Idea of deploying drones in their various state to checkmate the Fulani and Kidnapping Situation in the country.
By Binnabook Publishers.
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