Nigeria-Benin Border Partially Closed Due To Massive Smuggling Activities – Buhari

Nigeria-Benin Border Partially Closed Due To Massive Smuggling Activities – 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.

President Buhari in a statement through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, expressed great concern over the smuggling of rice, said it threatened the self-sufficiency already attained due to his administration’s agricultural policies. 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.

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