Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, who read a communique at the end of a four-hour meeting, said the team will advise on modalities for a joint border patrol.He said: “We have agreed to put in place certain mechanisms that would enable us to open the borders; there was consensus on that.
On other decisions reached at the meeting, he said they include the “Establishment of a Monitoring and Evaluation Committee” of the three countries, comprising of ministers of Finance, Trade, Foreign Affairs, Customs, Immigration and National Security Adviser , with the mandate to ensure actions that would facilitate and enhance the suppression of smuggled goods and other related matters.
The meeting, Onyeama said, “took note of the mandate of the committee which includes inter alia, measures and actions that would facilitate and enhance the suppression of rice smuggling and other prohibited items along with breed of the three countries”. On the impact of border closure, Onyeama noted, “The impact is been severe, border closure always has an impact, at the end of the day, it is about the mischief we are addressing.
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