Nigeria’s economy is being negatively impacted by the closing of the Niger border.
The economy of the states that border Nigeria has suffered significant harm as a result of the ongoing closure of the land border between Nigeria and the Republic of Niger, according to Senator Adamu Aliero, the senator for Kebbi Central.
Speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, which our correspondent watched, Kebbi State governor Aliero, who has served two terms, stated that the Economic Community of West African States directive’s border shutdown was needless and need to be reviewed.
He added that federal MPs from the northern states that were impacted had gotten together and demanded that the federal government immediately open the border to commercial traffic. “The ones suffering are our people who resided in the communities that shared a border with Niger.
Over a thousand trucks carrying goods from other nations are returning to the country through the border, which is blocked by the ECOWAS sanction.
“Even our agreement with the country on the dredging of the dam supplying our electricity has been breached when the government decided to cut off the light supply to the Niger Republic,” the statement reads.
Former minister Aliero said that the majority of other nations disregarded the ECOWAS-mandated sanctions against the Niger Republic.
He clarified that, contrary to expectations, the majority of the sanctions—particularly the border closure and the nation’s electrical supply cutoff—only negatively impacted common people, not the military regime.
Following the overthrow of the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, by rebel elite soldiers on July 26, ECOWAS imposed severe sanctions on Niger.
In an attempt to reestablish democracy, the 15-member West African group ECOWAS threatened to use force and outlawed trade with Niger.