President Bola Tinubu has approved the reopening of the Seme border for car importation.

The Director of Road Transport at the Ministry of Transportation, Ibrahim Musa, stated at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) conference, which was organized by authorities from Nigeria and Benin, that the development was the result of complaints from freight forwarders operating at the Seme border.

“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 said the service has noticed a reduction in its revenue since the importation of vehicles was banned from the land borders.

Nnadi said: “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.”

(Blueprint)