Shehu Sani Reacts To Reopening Of Nigeria’s Borders

Former Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has asked the Federal Government to apologize to Nigerians for closing Nigeria’s land borders.

Naija News reports that the federal government had on Friday ordered the reopening of four additional land borders shut in August 2019 as part of efforts to curtail smuggling and boost local production of rice.

This was made known in 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.

He 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 to the recent reopening of borders by the federal government in a post on Twitter, 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.