Moro who disclosed this in an interview in Abuja during the weekend said that such patrol of the most porous and vulnerable boundary areas of the north was key to improving security against the backdrop of Boko Haram terrorism.
He explained that the new border patrol unit will greatly enhance the protection of open, unprotected border areas by reducing the number of illegal immigrants who sneak into the country through unofficial routes.
“The 2000 specially trained border corps members are the first batch of about 10,000 officers expected to be trained in unique border patrol techniques to effectively protect the nation’s land borders.
“Apart from that the number of officers and men would be steadily raised to beef-up the force into a standard unit, in the New Year, and they will be assisted by modern surveillance equipment, including tracker helicopters to ensure water-tight protection of borders to effectively reduce illegal immigrants entering the country,” Moro stated.
The minister also used the opportunity to assess the performance of the agencies in the Ministry of Interior in 2014; he said the federal government has approved new administrative policies and strict prison residency rules to reduce the number of jailbreaks in the country.
He assured that everything humanly possible would be done to enhance security in the prisons especially since it has been discovered that part of the major threats to prison safety have been “insider collaboration” with criminals to breach the security of prisons.
Moro declared that the breakdown of disciple and patriotism in various prison formations must be tackled before security can be improved in the prisons.
Efforts, he said, were in top gear to improve welfare conditions in prisons including the expansion of prison facilities and the provision of new structures to decongest over-crowded prisons.
Moro assured that the projects will receive priority attention in 2015, especially now that many foreign countries particularly Britain has offered assistance to Nigeria for quick completion of prison reforms and upgrade of facilities to facilitate prisoner exchange.
The minister also highlighted some key achievements of the Federal Fire Service (FFS), saying that efforts were made in the outgoing year to improve the operations to make the agency more responsive in tackling fire disasters in the country.
He listed some of the achievements in the FFS to include the introduction and domestication of the National Fire Safety Code, which was not there before now.
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