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Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by domesifa(m): 12:42am On Aug 30, 2019 |
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE NIGERIA-BENIN BORDER PARTIALLY CLOSED DUE TO SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES, SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the partial closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic to the massive smuggling activities, especially of rice, taking place on that corridor. The Nigerian leader gave the reason during an audience granted his Beninois counterpart, Patrice Talon, on the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7), in Yokohama, Japan on Wednesday. President Buhari, who expressed great concern over the smuggling of rice, said it threatened the self-sufficiency already attained due to his administration’s agricultural policies. According to him, “Now that our people in the rural areas are going back to their farms, and the country has saved huge sums of money which would otherwise have been expended on importing rice using our scarce foreign reserves, we cannot allow smuggling of the product at such alarming proportions to continue.” The Nigerian President said the limited closure of the country’s western border was to allow Nigeria’s security forces develop a strategy on how to stem the dangerous trend and its wider ramifications. Responding to the concerns raised by President Talon on the magnitude of suffering caused by the closure, President Buhari said he had taken note and would reconsider reopening in the not too distant future. He, however, disclosed that a meeting with his counterparts from Benin and Niger Republics would soon be called to determine strict and comprehensive measures to curtail the level of smuggling across their borders. Earlier, President Talon had said he called on the Nigerian President as a result of the severe impact the closure of the Nigerian border was having on his people. President Buhari also received in audience, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa during which issues of common bilateral relations especially, the killings of Nigerians in South Africa, were discussed. The matter will be further examined during the Nigerian leader’s official visit to Pretoria in October 2019. Femi Adesina Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) August 28, 2019 |
Re: Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by Nobody: 3:20am On Aug 30, 2019 |
Nice move. Illegal route used for also feeding the terrorists and the rest 1 Like |
Re: Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by cenaman(m): 4:20am On Aug 30, 2019 |
Buhari Amaka! Nigeria Amaka!! APC Amaka!!! |
Re: Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by KidsNEXTdoor: 4:36am On Aug 30, 2019 |
What about the border with Niger Republic.chad. And all lslamic terrorists funding Boko Haram Their borders must be open |
Re: Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by KidsNEXTdoor: 4:37am On Aug 30, 2019 |
cenaman:.....shut Up there |
Re: Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by LekkiG: 4:52am On Aug 30, 2019 |
So what is the main duty of the Nigerian customs? If the FG can close border because of smuggling, do we still need customs in our border Everything under this man is really joke |
Re: Nigeria-benin Border Partially Closed Due To Smuggling Activities -presidency by Mynd44: 4:54am On Aug 30, 2019 |
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