The Executive Director, Nigeria Business Forum, Ghana, Chief Oyeyemisola Fatuyi, has urged the Nigeria Customs Service to work with some responsible organisations to put an end to the activities of smugglers through the land borders.
Fatuyi said this in a chat with our correspondent while reacting to the call by the NCS Comptroller General, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.) that the Federal Government should close the Seme border in order to check the activities of smugglers.
According to him, the NCS should rather work on its intelligence gathering mechanism to enable it to arrest those doing illegal business across the nation’s borders.
He said, “Closing the Seme border won’t do us any good. Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service should investigate some of his men that are aiding the smugglers and beef up surveillance at every post.
“Nigeria Business Forum-Ghana is an umbrella body that is advocating for free and easy movement of Nigerian Businessmen and women in the Diaspora. We canvass for foreign direct businesses into Nigeria and promote made-in-Nigeria products in the Diaspora.”
He added, “We are willing and ready to expose and shame the unscrupulous people working against the good agenda of President Buhari in making sure corruption and bad practices are things of the past in our country.
“There should be open and very secure lines to the Customs boss 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 of smugglers.”
