The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has debunked some media
reports that the Federal Government has lifted the ban on vehicle importation
through the Seme border.
Mr Hussaini Abdullahi, Customs Public Relations Officer
(CPRO) Seme Area Command, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN), in Seme, Lagos State.
Abdullahi explained
that the service had not made such a pronouncement at all,though a proposal was
written by some freight forwarders to the Federal Government following an advice from Prince
Ademola Adegoroye, the then Minister of States for Transportation.
He said that the former minister had visited the border to
inaugurate some projects sometime in February when the freight forwarders put
up a complaint to him about how the ban had affected them.
He added that the minister had advised the freight
forwarders and members of the border community then to put their requests in
writing.
The Customs spokesman said that a recent visit by the
Director of Road Transport in the Ministry of Transportation, Ibrahim Musa,
only confirmed that the letter by the freight forwarders had been received and
acted upon by the ministry by forwarding it to higher authority.
NAN reports that Seme border was among the four land borders
reopened by Federal Government on Dec.16, 2020 by the then Minister of Finance,
Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed.
Before reopening the
four land borders, the Federal Government had on Aug. 21, 2019, ordered the
closure of Nigerian borders to curb smuggling of goods and weapons. (NAN)
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