STRATEGIC MEANS OF BORDER MANAGEMENT IN SELECTED WEST-AFRICAN SUB-SAHARA REGIONS
Naziru Mohammed Musallli and Mubarak Magaji
Volume 11 Issue 1
Abstract
Border management has become a central issue in the contemporary global arena. Globalization has led to increasing flows of people, goods and services across regional borders. The porosity of borders in West African Regions, which is loosely patrolled, resulted in massive influx of illegal immigrant and many other forms of organized border criminal activities especially in the regions. Several initiatives on coordinated border management had been made both at regional and continental level with the purpose to address the issues related to border management. Yet there are growing number of concerns on how border will be managed effectively the main objective of this study is to investigate the challenges and find out lasting solutions to the problems militating against the performance of border management personnel in most of these regions specifically Nigeria. The study unit of analysis is zone C of north-eastern Nigerian borders. Quantitative techniques employed, as a better means of problems solving method, whereby number of questionnaires was distributed in the field. The study empirically tested 4 hypotheses from the quantitative point of view in which 3 are supported and only 1 is not supported. The result indicates that there is significance relationship between organizational policies, infrastructural facilities and staff welfare to staff performance, while staff development has no significant effect to staff performance. The study recommends that governments of the regions should put effective institutional framework that will immensely help in improving performance of personnel which would serve as panacea to border management crises bordering in the regions at large. Keywords: Border Management, Staff Development, Sub-Sahara Regions West African,
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