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doris00:


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.





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this got me laughing.............

Hmm?

madridguy:
Baba Buhari am not with you on this. Close the borders close to insurgency, terrorism and not our rice border.

Baba do come back and open our rice border. Christmas is around the corner.

And you think those borders are wide open abi? They've been closed since the Jonathan era

Very stupid talk.
Why not close those borders that help smuggle in his terrorist brothers.
Because it's not cow. Assuming it's berth cows will he order the closure?

doris00:
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.

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 to 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, Buhari said he had taken note and would reconsider reopening it 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 which the closure of the Nigerian border was having on his people.

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.



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kayusely70:
A devastating blow to smugglers.

the real smugglers are in niger and chad borders tho

Do people smuggle rice through the closed borders or bush?
Our president and overseas audience sha.
Pls, is Kyari not with him, e be like sey na the man no dey allow am talk for naija.

madridguy:
Baba Buhari am not with you on this. Close the borders close to insurgency, terrorism and not our rice border.

Baba do come back and open our rice border. Christmas is around the corner.

You never see anything yet .No hope for common man again and All of you supporting this evil man will surely regret it.Nigerians are starving,hunger is ravaging the land and you senseless people are still supporting this hardship of a man called Buhari.May God punish all of you

Yeah, like professional smugglers will follow official point of entry when they want to smuggle rice ...........what a bummer.........

Rice price con increase

To you everything is SW/North West... I think you need yo grow up.

Quorax:
But Buhari is your best president na... na kuku people wey their business depend on this, mostly SWners na him go suffer this one... he did not close border in the North, na South own him dey close... Even people from Niger Republic come down south. Make una let me hear word.

Quorax:
But Buhari is your best president na... na kuku people wey their business depend on this, mostly SWners na him go suffer this one... he did not close border in the North, na South own him dey close... Even people from Niger Republic come down south. Make una let me hear word.

No mind the guy ,they never see anything yet.

madridguy:
To you everything is SW/North West... I think you need yo grow up.

Oga shut up your dirty stinking mouth,you are not making any sense.Mind you I am a Yoruba man.

What about the massive smuggling including of Fulanis, gold and weapons in the Nigerian northern borders between Chad and Niger Republic? Shouldn't smuggling of illegal aliens and weapons into Nigeria be of greater concern to you than smuggling of rice through Benin Republic? Any person with few brain cells would understand that the later is less of a threat to the security of the country. Or is because shutting down the smuggling of rice helps to maintain your tribe's man dominance and monopoly of a staple food item in Nigeria? If Nigerians, especially the southerners do not see through all these shenanigans and understand what is taking place, then they are FOOLS. To the northerners, it's all about control and stifling of the southerners.

helinues:
FG should have explained all this to the public. Imagine how many people caught unaware of the closure of the border.

Government that doesn't care about its citizens

Omo Men I just hear this news o

My babe won go buy turkey and rice them don add money double.. Chei

livinbygrace:



You never see anything yet .No hope for common man again and All of you supporting this evil man will surely regret it.Nigerians are starving,hunger is ravaging the land and you senseless people are still supporting this hardship of a man called Buhari.May God punish all of you

My brother,those that supported the return of this man and are still supporting him deserve all the curses they are getting.
It was simply insanity for anyone,aside his family members to have cast a vote for a 4 year reconfirmed,officially 78yr old, monumental failure and bigot.

gwarotango:
And you think those borders are wide open abi? They've been closed since the Jonathan era

Which northern is closed? Dey there make pant dey wear you

Rice is now 18k in d market, from the previous 12k,im just tired

itsme01:



lets eat what we grow and use our own ports

Lamenting fools should go to Ghana and see there laws, you can't ship in nonesense into their country

Igbo peoples shops are been closed by ghanians because their Government made laws forbiding foreogners from owning small businesses that would compete with locals, so businesses less than $200k isnt allowed

We need such to grow rather than continue borrowing for luxury

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Their laws
Are being closed

I repeat you need to grow up.

livinbygrace:


Oga shut up your dirty stinking mouth,you are not making any sense.Mind you I am a Yoruba man.

madridguy:
I repeat you need to grow up.

Your father ,oloshi.God punish you and your generation

doris00:
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.

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 to 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, Buhari said he had taken note and would reconsider reopening it 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 which the closure of the Nigerian border was having on his people.

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.



See more here https://thickmatch.com/buhari-gives-reasons-closure-nigerias-border-benin-republic/

Flood the market with a better option..

Insensitivity at peak. You closed border over the activities of smugglers.What happened to your custom officer in charge of it... failure bubu

madridguy:
Baba Buhari am not with you on this. Close the borders close to insurgency, terrorism and not our rice border.

Baba do come back and open our rice border. Christmas is around the corner.

Must you eat rice?

fergieboy:
Omo Men I just hear this news o

My babe won go buy turkey and rice them don add money double.. Chei

Must you eat smuggled rice and turkey?

A sacrifice for a better Nigeria .

Pls they should also close the border between Nigeria and Niger, and the border between Nigeria and Chad, the number of herdsmen bringing in cattles and weapon are too much

dome22:
useless Buhari. the border was closed without any warning whatsoever. imagine lives, businesses and genuine transactions that were badly affected during that closure period

A friend of mine that works with a car repair firm in Lagos, called me recently that their business has been facing challenges due to the border closure because most of their customers come from that axis. In fact, the guy was pleading that I should help him with any amount to keep body n soul together.

madridguy:
To you everything is SW/North West... I think you need yo grow up.

fork off you dumbo... go to that border and you will not find any South Westerner as customs officer... ALL OF THEM THERE ARE NORTH. Bloody fool!

these children of hate are really something else. they want to eat their cake and have it back. it's not possible. how can you Have a better economy without taking advantage of areas that you have strength. you have to start from somewhere. as the saying goes, no pain no gain. an example was the GSM revolution. sim cards started at a price of about N35000, but today, they are sold for N200. when the multiplier effects of Nigerian rice sets in, price will fall. but it takes time

Oga President closed border because of foreign rice.Meanwhile he flies to London majestically to treat headache and all his children graduated from foreign universities...
It's OK..