Nigeria to ECOWAS on Border closure: Goods coming into the country must have 30% local input

Yusuf Bello| Nigeria on Monday said that goods coming into the country must have 30 per cent local input.

The country equally insisted that ECOWAS countries must respect rules of origin, vowing that Nigeria will no longer tolerate repackaging of imported goods.

These were some of the conditions given to ECOWAS countries pushing for the re-opening of the land borders which were shut over smuggling of rice, guns and other contrabands into Nigeria from the neighbouring countries.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama said this during the meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Temporary Partial Closure of Land Borders held at the ministry of foreign affairs, Abuja.

According to Onyema, goods imported for the Nigerian market must be escorted directly from the port of member states directly to the borders.