Border closure: Benin is world’s second-largest importer of Tramadol – Emir Sanusi

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The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has expressed his approval of the federal government’s closure of the land borders saying the measure has positive impacts on the country illicit drug wise.

Sanusi made this assertion on Tuesday in Abuja during the launch of the maiden Foreign Policy Journal by the Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria (ARCAN).

The monarch said the land border closure addressed the twin problems of smuggling and spate of illicit drug use in the north.

He said: “Nigeria is 70 per cent of the population of West Africa and If we have an industrial policy that is aimed at protecting the productive sector of Nigeria it is a fair competition.

“We cannot allow our neighbours to open their doors to this unfair competition and through the back door undermine our industry.

“It is not about smuggling petroleum or rice but in 2017, the Republic of Benin was the world’s second-largest importer of Tramadol to the United States.

“All those drugs came into Northern Nigeria and now we hear that there are also arms coming in.

“So closing the borders, I hope is not a permanent solution but what I hope is that is an opportunity to sit down and agree on rules and then open up the borders.”

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