Executive Director Nigeria Business Forum-Ghana Chief Oyeyemisola Fatuyi has urged the Nigeria Customs Service to work with some responsible organisation such as the forum in ending activities of smugglers through the land borders and getting the smugglers arrested.
Fatuyi stated this to our correspondent while reacting to the call by the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service Col. Hameed Ali (Retd) that the Federal Government should close the Seme border in order to check smuggling activities.
According to him the Nigeria Customs Service, should rather work on their intelligence gathering to enable the customs arrest those doing illegal business across our borders.
“Closing the Seme border won’t do us any good. CG of The Nigeria Customs Service should investigate some of his men that are aiding the smugglers and beef up their surveillance at every of their post.
“Nigeria Business Forum-Ghana is an umbrella body that is advocating for free and easy movement of the Nigeria Businessmen and women in diaspora.
“We canvases for foreign direct businesses into Nigeria and promote made in Nigeria products in diaspora.
“We are willing and ready to expose, shame the unscrupulous people working against the good agenda of President Buhari in making sure corruption and bad practises are things of the past in our country.
“There should be open and very secure lines to the CG of the Nigeria Customs Service for people that truly have the love of Nigeria at heart to report the activities of both bad eggs in the customs service and those smugglers”, he added.
