FG Re-open Seme Border For Vehicle Importation

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Director of Road Transport in the Ministry of Transportation, Ibrahim Musa disclosed that the Federal Government has approved the re-opening of the Seme border for the importation of vehicles.

Musa made this known yesterday at the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, meeting organised between officials of Nigeria and Benin, the development was as a result of complaints by freight forwarders operating at the Seme border.

Speaking at the ECOWAS Monitoring Team’s visit to the Seme-Krake Joint Border Post, Musa said: “I was here with the former Minister of State for Transportation when the Freight Forwarders pleaded that the border should be reactivated for the free movement of goods and services.

“The former minister made us prepare a memo to that effect. It was considered and sent to the government.”

Also speaking, The Customs Area Controller of Seme Border Command, Dera Nnadi also speaking, that there has been a reduction in revenue since the ban on the importation of vehicles on land borders.

“The former Minister of Transportation, responding to some of our requests and from the stakeholders, promised to take them to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, one of them is how to fully open this border.

“The Ministry has informed us that the memo has been written to FEC and it was adopted and that it would be given to the new government, he assured us that all the requests were adopted.”