Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and Niger have
established a joint border patrol team comprising the Police, Customs,
Immigration of the tripartite countries to recommend a date for the
reopening of the nation’s borders.
The decision was part of resolutions arrived at at the end of the
tripartite anti-smuggling committee meeting in Abuja, yesterday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who read the
communiqué, said the meeting took note of concerns raised and agreed to
establish a monitoring and evaluating committee comprising ministers of
Finance, Trade, Foreign Affairs, Customs, Immigration and National
Security Adviser of the three countries with a mandate to ensure actions
that would facilitate and enhance the suppression of smuggled goods and
other related matters.
Onyeama also said the meeting agreed that the monitoring and
evaluation committee would ensure full implementation of the adopted
mandate of the Joint Anti-smuggling Human Trafficking Committee.
They also agreed to establish trade facilitation committee comprising
ministers of Finance and Trade in order to promote intra-regional trade
as well as put in place sanctions against smuggling of goods.
Amongst others, Onyeama said governments agreed “to ensure persons
from the three countries enter/exit each other states with valid ECOWAS
recognised travel documents through recongnised controlled posts.
The team is to hold its first meeting on November 25-26.
The patrol team is to agree on the modality to carry out its
operation and recommend a date for the opening of the borders,” Onyeama
said.
Meanwhile, the Forum of the West African Financial Intelligence Units
in Dakar, Senegal voted to unanimously relocate the Headquarters of its
Forum to Abuja, Nigeria from its temporary site in Cotonou, Benin
Republic.
Chief Media Analyst of NFIU, Ahmed Dikko, said this in a statement made available to Daily Sun.
He is explained that the work of the forum is to coordinate
intelligence sharing among state parties of Ecowas and members of the
Chad Basin countries on money laundering, terrorism financing, financing
of proliferation of weapons and all other criminal activities.
“It was agreed that the Nigerian Financial intelligence unit (NFIU)
will host the Headquarters temporarily and gradually nurture it to an
independent regional Headquarters,” Dikko, said.
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