Xenophobia: Niger Republic Too Is Guilty, By Suleiman Uba Gaya - Premium Times Opinion

President Muhammadu Buhari has made this possible with his intervention in South Africa, a country whose nationals are taking Nigerians for granted, and who have been shortchanging and killing Nigerians, obviously because they felt the authorities in Nigeria would hardly bat an eyelid.

But the story has changed since the advent of the Issoufou administration, which has been taking advantage of the fact that first, not many people would believe the story that Niger Republic is antagonistic to Nigeria , and secondly, knowing that most of the people being cheated would hardly take their case to Nigerian authorities or the media.

“Several reports have been cited of this unexpected behaviour, but the one that readily comes to mind, and which has been most reported about, is that of a Nigerian company, Architeam Group Niaport SA, which was assigned the contract of airport expansion in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic. “A clear indication that all is not well in the way and manner the country treats Nigeria is the seeming disdain with which the current government of the country holds the Buhari administration.

The Editorial went on to call on the authorities in Nigeria to rise to the occasion and do everything to defend the interest of Nigerians earning their livelihood in any country, and concluded as follows: For example, in a recent letter written and sent to Niger by Nigeria’s minister of justice and attorney general of the FFederation, Nigeria expressed her disappointment on a number of things. First, it mentioned the Niamey meeting of May 5-6, during which the Niger delegation complained that the documents and claims submitted by the company in question for consideration were not made available to it in good time.

Every Nigerian should be proud seeing the comptroller general of the Nigerian Customs Service, Colonel Hamid Ali, on a visit to the Nigeria-Niger border in Maigatari, last week, reiterating the fact that Nigeria will not reopen its borders with Niger Republic unless that country and other neighbours give irrevocable assurance that it will not resume the destruction of Nigeria’s economy by allowing all manner of illegal and dangerous items to be smuggled through it.

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