Border Closure: Falana Writes ECOWAS, Urges Them To Prevail On Nigerian Government | Sahara Reporters

Rights lawyer, Femi Falana , has written to the Economic Community of West African States to request an end to the smuggling of goods from Benin Republic into Nigeria.

He called on the commission to prevail on the Nigerian Government to end the illegal closure of land borders without any further delay. The letter by Falana was written in reaction to a communique issued at the end of the extraordinary session of the Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS held on November 8 in Niamey, Niger Republic.

The letter read in part, “The commission should fast-track the deployment of the Task Force on Free Movement of Goods and Persons to arrest and prosecute the powerful smugglers operating in Benin and Nigeria with the connivance of a few unscrupulous customs officials.

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