Insecurity: Defence minister proposes technology-driven tollgates on major highways

The Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has projected the instrumentality of tollgates connected large highways, saying modern exertion could marque them utile tools for monitoring movements and tackling transgression activities.

Musa argued that automated toll systems would alteration information agencies to seizure conveyance registration details, show postulation on interstate routes and hint suspects without relying connected cash-based transactions.

In a connection issued by his Special Assistant connected Media, Leah Katung-Babatunde, the curate described the removal and demolition of tollgates crossed the state arsenic a information setback.

He made the connection portion speaking astatine the Abuja Round Table, themed Promise to Proof: The Renewed Hope Conversation. He participated successful a league examining ways to support lives and livelihoods and marque communities safer for farming, travelling and commercialized activities.

“With modern Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and automation, toll postulation nary longer requires currency transactions. Automated systems tin instantly seizure conveyance registration numbers, way vehicular movements crossed interstate corridors, and seamlessly hint oregon apprehend suspects,” helium said.

Although acknowledging that tollgates had been associated with abuses successful the past, Musa maintained that automated systems could code s...