The Senate Committee on Interior, under the leadership of Senator Kashim Shettima has strongly advocated for the urgent need of increased budgetary allocation for the Interior Ministry, especially considering the importance of the Mandate of internal security of the over Two Hundred Million Nigerian population and her vast land and water boarders spanning over Four Thousand kilometers in size.
Senator Kashim Shettima confirmed this very urgent need of increased budgetary allocation to the Interior Ministry when the Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Management team led by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr Shuaib Belgore appeared before the Senate Committee on Interior for the 2021 Budget Performance and 2022 Budget Defence at the NASS, according to a press statement signed by A.B.Lere-Adams, Director Press, Ministry of Interior on 28/10/2021.
He opined that comparatively in other cline, MDAs responsible for internal security of any nation have very huge budget which to a large extent enhances the enthronement of appreciable peace and security.
The budget allocation to the internal security sector assist nations to properly strategize and plan for needed activities of monitoring and surveillance arrangements for checking timely movement of both human aliens who come into nations illegally with dangerous arms and ammunition, headers and their cattles, miners with fake travel document, all of these come in through porous and unmanned and unprotected boarders creating numerable insecurities and chaos to our dear country, Nigeria.
Earlier on, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola when asked about the Policy Thrust of the Ministry, said the Ministry is Primarily responsible for broadly Security, Integrity and Citizenship of the citizenry.
Ogbeni Aregbesola added that the Ministry addresses directly citizenship, Travel Document, Residence Permit , Insurance of Expatriate Quota, Marriages and Inter- Marriages, while superintending over it’s Four Services of , the Nigerian Immigration Service, Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Correctional Service Facility and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps.
