Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, who is a retired Deputy Comptroller General of Customs, tells SUNDAY ABORISADE that the current partial lockdown and the conti...
Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, who is a retired Deputy Comptroller General of Customs, tells SUNDAY ABORISADE that the current partial lockdown and the continued border closure could have adverse effects on the economy, among other issuesexperts have argued that the continued closure of the nation’s borders is affecting the economy because smugglers are still having their way.
If the Federal Government had respected all the ECOWAS protocol agreements which were signed at various times, Nigeria wouldn’t have closed its borders unilaterally. I have made the management of the Nigerian Customs Service to understand that they cannot close the borders against their own people because almost half of the population of the Republic of Benin are Nigerians. Go to Cotonou, you will see many Yoruba people residing there. Porto Novo is partly inhabited by the Yoruba.
I told the Customs CG that his men were carrying guns because border management has collapsed. This has also affected ports management, if you observe what’s happening at the ports too. All the ports are in the South. The one in Calabar is under-utilised and nothing has been done in Warri port, too. There are about three ports in Delta State alone. There is one in Kokori. Instead of clearing fish in Apapa, you can take such activity there.
That brings us to the aspect of foreign debts; do you think we have the capacity to service these loans as a nation?
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