A member of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders, Segun Musa, has said the closure of borders by the Federal Government did not achieve any result.
Musa challenged the government to reveal what had been achieved by closing the borders.
He said the Federal government has not told the nation what the closure of the borders achieved these years.
“If there has not been any achievement, then the closure was a disaster. As the government re-opens the border, they should be able to tell us what they have achieved within the period and what measures have been put in place to ensure that we don’t expect a closure again,” he said.
The reopening of nigerian borders has a political undertone, said a member of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, Ojo Akintoye, in his reaction.
Akintoye wonders why now that the country was planning for 2023 election.
“It is political, tell us why they were closed in the first place and tell us why the government decided to open the borders now that the election is around the corner. I don’t know why we continue to deceive ourselves in this country. You said you closed the borders because of security threats and since then till now, the security threat has been increasing on a daily basis. So how do we justify that?
“Or is the government coming to tell us that there are no more security challenges in the country? So, closing the borders is political and opening it around this time is also political, that is to the best of my knowledge,” he concluded.
The Federal Government through the Nigerian Customs Service reopened the land borders at Idiroko, Jibia, Kamba and Ikom a few years after shutting the land borders due to the incessant smuggling of arms and different contraband goods.
In December 2020, the Federal Executive Council re-opened the country’s four major land borders, which were Seme, Ilella, Maigatari and Mfun.
