The senator representing Kebbi Central, Senator Adamu Aliero, has lamented that the continued closure of the land border between Nigeria and the Republic of Niger has caused serious damage to the economies of the states bordering the country.
Aliero, a two-term governor of Kebbi State, while speaking on Arise Television, monitored by our correspondent on Tuesday, said the closure of the border on the Economic Community of West African States directive was unnecessary and should be revisited.
He said federal lawmakers from the affected states in the North had met and called on the federal government to, as a matter of urgency, open the border for business activities.
“Our people living in the communities that shared the border with Niger are the ones suffering and bearing the brunt.
“If you go to the border today, you will see over a thousand trucks coming back to the country with goods from different countries but are struck in the border because of this ECOWAS sanction.
