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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Monday, July 05, 2004. Border patrol: Nigeria to equip Niger’s police By Maxwell Oditta Senior Correspondent, Lagos The Nigeria Police is to equip its Niger Republic counterpart with facilities for border operations. This is a fall-out of the one-week official visit to that country by a three-man committee set up by the Inspector General, Mr. Tafa Balogun. A member of the committee, Amusa Bello, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, disclosed to Daily Independent that the gesture became necessary after deliberations with police and military authorities in that country on prospects and modalities of forming a team with Nigerian security agencies, to checkmate incidence of trans-border armed brigandage. Bello, who commands the Nigeria-Benin Republic joint border operations, revealed that lack of patrol equipment and not political will could hamper collaboration between Nigeria and Niger Republic. “We were well received by our hosts in Niger Republic. They have agreed to take part in joint border operations with us, but on the basis that we meet their material requirements for such operations. We will oblige them. They may not be as fortunate economically as we are, but they understand the need to make sure our common border is secured against infiltrations,” Bello said. For reasons of time, the trip to Chad has been deferred till when the committee would complete its visit to Yaounde where it would highlight to Camerounian police and gendarmes stakes for both countries in eliminating threats to security of lives and property at the border, especially the porous Lake Chad borderline. To that end, the Police Commissioner Azeez Mida-led committee would depart for Yaounde on Tuesday. Reminded that Nigeria and Cameroun have an unresolved land and maritime boundary dispute over oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, which might not make the Camerounian police authorities very receptive to the idea of joint operations, Bello retorted: “We do hope to be well received in Yaounde. I should not pre-empt them.”               Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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