The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will soon deploy drones at Seme for effective patrol in checking smuggling activities in the border area.
NCS Zone A Coordinator, Modupe Aremu, an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) of Customs, disclosed this during a working visit to Seme Border Area Command.
According to her, border management surveillance will be done electronically through the use of drones to ensure that there will be area overview of what is happening.
She noted that the service was trying to minimize person to person contact to reduce human interaction and make the work faster and more efficient.
Aremu expressed satisfaction with the joint border post buildings that was commissioned on Oct. 23, 2018, noting that it ushered in an era of coordinated border management.
She urged Seme Customs to keep abreast of all the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) protocols in order to understand what was happening.
