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The Seme land border will once again be accessible for importing automobiles, according to the Nigerian Federal Government.
On Wednesday, Ibrahim Musa, the director of road transportation for the Ministry of Transportation, revealed the information.
Musa said that the situation came about due to complaints made by freight forwarders working at the Seme border during his speech at the ECOWAS conference between Nigerian and Benin Republic authorities.
"I was here with the former Minister of State for Transportation when the freight forwarders pleaded for the border to be opened up for the free flow of goods and services," he recalled.
"The former minister ordered us to draft a document stating that. It was examined and forwarded to the government.
Dera Nnadi, the Customs Area Controller of Seme Border Command, also spoke at the occasion and bemoaned the service's decreased revenue since the suspension of car imports across land borders by the most recent government.
Nnadi stated: "One of our demands, as well as requests from stakeholders, was for the previous minister of transportation to present them to the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
"The Ministry has informed us that the memo has been written to FEC and that it was adopted and that it would be given to the new government, and he assured us that all the requests were adopted."
