I Totally Support The Closure of Our Borders. -Emir Sanusi Lamido

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HRH. Sanusi Lamido, Emir of Kano
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has expressed satisfaction with the decision to close land borders with the neighbouring countries by the federal government.  

 HRH Sanusi, describing it as the only way through which Nigeria’s anti-smuggling laws could be enforced. 

 He stated this in Kano on Wednesday Sept 18th,  while briefing the press in his palace on the sideline of recent appointments into the National Economic Advisory Council by President Muhammadu Buhari. 

 “If you remember when the president came to Kano on official visit, I actually talk about closing the borders with the Republic of Benin. I always felt that if you really want to enforce laws that you have against smuggling, you need to close borders. 

 “You have petroleum products moving basically across the borders from Nigeria to neighbouring countries because of our fuel subsidies.  You have goods coming in across the border using the port in Cotonou to avoid tax revenues in Lagos; so what happens is we don’t get the revenue from duties and tariffs and then we end up having the goods coming in anyway. 

 “Closing the borders becomes indispensable because our neighbouring countries are not helping us to protect our economy. For instance, if you want to protect rice farmers, you have to impose heavy taxation on importation of foreign rice into the country.

 "With this, I think I wholeheartedly, without any doubt support the closure of our borders" Emir Sanusi added. 

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