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The Nigerian Custom Service (NCS) has explained why Importers and Exporters can no longer bring in nor take out good through the land borders.
Addressing Newsmen in Abuja, the Controller General of the Nigerian Custom service, Hameed Ali, said ” goods can only enter the country through the air and sea ports, where they can undergo thorough scanning and certified fit for consumption”
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“For now, all goods, whether illicit or non-illicit, are banned from going and coming into Nigeria.
“Let me add that for the avoidance of doubt that we included all goods because all goods can equally come through our seaports.
“For that reason, we have deemed it necessary for now that importers of such goods should go through our controlled boarders where we have scanners to verify the kind of goods and how healthy to our people can be conducted.”
Ali said all laws takes back sit when it. Come to security issues, he said this when he was asked if the new ban is not infringement on the right to freedom of movement.
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“We want to make sure that our people are protected. You must be alive and well for you to begin to ask for your rights. Your rights come when you are well and alive.
“Go and see the people in Maiduguri when Boko Haram was harassing their lives, the only question was survival, there is no question of right. This time Nigeria must survive first then before we begin to ask for our rights.”
