The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo says the installation of the electronic gates (e-gates) mounted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja is 99 percent completed.
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The Minister said the e-gates were being deployed to eliminate human interfaces, reduce bureaucracy and make the movement of passengers in and out the country seamless.
While stating that 29 of the e-gates would be deployed in Lagos, Tunji-Ojo assured that the Airport Infrastructure and Command and Control Centres have been subjected to different tests with fake and expired passports rejected while genuine ones were cleared.
Earlier, Tunji-Ojo said the era of unnecessary delays for passengers who come into the country due to manual scanning by immigration officers would be a thing of the past by the time the project came to fruition.
Tunji-Ojo recalled that the Federal Government had promised Nigerians that upon their arrival in the country, they would enjoy a seamless passage at the airports through e-gate, unlike in the past.
Tunji-Ojo said that with what he saw on ground, he had no doubt that, when completed, Nigerians would no longer be at the mercy of NIS officers or anybody else when they arrived in Nigeria.
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