The border between Benin Republic and Nigeria was closed by the Federal Government a few weeks ago. According to Akufo-Addo, this is affecting regional integration.
Ghana President, Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo has broken silence over Nigeria’s border closure.
The president disclosed
this during a meeting with a delegation from the First Bank of Nigeria at the
Jubilee House in Accra.
He said: “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”.
Akufo-Addo argued that
overall interest of member states should override individual national interest.
“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.
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