 Nigerian President Mohamed Buhari has stressed the urgent need for Nigeria and her neighbors to place high premium on effective policing of borders as the fragile nature of entry points into various countries and has terrorism, economic sabotage and a leased-sit flow of arms. The President spoke at the State House, Abuja, while playing host to Secretary-General of World Customs Organization, who was in Nigeria for a global conference on fragile borders. He said the theme of the conference, which is enabling custom in fragile and conflict-affected situation, is of critical importance for us as a country as we go to the polls, but equal important to most countries on the continent and I daresay the world. I made it a careful cardinal commitment of mine to ensure each Nigeria is able to exercise their franchise by participating in a free and fair election in true practice of our relatively nascent democracy. It is our objective to ensure this takes place in a peaceful and conducive atmosphere despite all the usual excitement and givemanship that is known to occur during election campaign. The fragility of our borders has been a major Achilles heel in our fight against terrorism, economic sabotage and a leased flow of small arms and light weapons. See how comprehensive and exhausting solutions can be proposed that deal with the multifaceted nature of this issue. Customs should play a more active role in security area because without security we can't collect revenue or facilitate trade and especially we are mindful of small traders at land borders because unless we promote their trade whether it is formal or informal we can't really secure the stability and prosperity of that borderline.