Ghanaian President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday expressed his country’s dissatisfaction over the closure of land borders between Nigeria and neighbours, saying it’s a big blow to regional integration.
Akufo-Addo who made this known at a meeting with a delegation from the First Bank of Nigeria at the Jubilee House in Accra said the closure of borders will affect ECOWAS project.
In his words: “We are about to enter a delicate period in the ECOWAS journey looking ahead of the possibility of a single currency and trying to forge greater integration among our economies and at the same time have important security and other issues which confront us.
“We have this business of the closure of the Benin Border, which seems to some people to be a big blow to the ECOWAS project.
“I believe that there are other considerations that we have to look at and examine to find a way so that we can live in this region in harmony and allow each one of us our national ambition to be fulfilled,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has explained that the country’s borders were closed to checkmate three issues, including importation of arms and ammunition, smuggling and human trafficking.
