A former member of the National Assembly, who represented the Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, Shehu Sani, has asked the Federal Government to apologise for closing Nigeria’s land borders for close to three years.
The government had in August 2019 closed its land borders to curtail the illegal importation of drugs, small arms, and agricultural products into Nigeria from neighbouring West African nations.
The federal government had last Friday approved the reopening of four additional land borders shut in 2019 as part of efforts to curtail smuggling and boost local production of rice.
A circular released by the Nigeria Customs Service, signed by Deputy Comptroller-General E. I. Edorhe, on behalf of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Hameed Ali, listed the borders as Idiroko border post in Ogun State, Jibiya border post in Katsina State, Kamba border post in Kebbi State and Ikom border post in Cross River State.
Reacting on Tuesday, 26 April, to the recent reopening of borders by the federal government, Sani noted that since the closure of borders achieved nothing, the government owed it as a duty to apologise after reopening the borders.
“The closure of Nigeria’s borders has achieved nothing; opening it should come with apologies,” he Tweeted on Tuesday.
