{"id":737825,"date":"2019-11-04T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/nigeria-selfish-insensitive-for-closing-border-mp\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T20:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:16:25","slug":"nigeria-selfish-insensitive-for-closing-border-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/nigeria-selfish-insensitive-for-closing-border-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria selfish, insensitive for closing border &#8211; MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/nigeria-selfish-insensitive-for-closing-border-mp\/\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1572725305_813_video-nii-lante-vanderpuye-pius-hadzide-fight-in-studio-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Nii Lante Vanderpuye\" title=\"video-nii-lante-vanderpuye-pius-hadzide-fight-in-studio.png\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nii Lante Vanderpuye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, is of the view that Nigeria is being selfish and insensitive for closing its border without considering the negative effects on other Economic Community of West African States countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see Nigerians as our big brothers in West Africa in terms of population and land size so we expect them to take good initiatives for us to follow but I\u2019ve realised they are selfish, they only think just about themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish President Nana Akufo-Addo had told the Nigerian president in their meeting that he is giving them a number of days to open his borders for his people otherwise he will also close his borders. Sometimes you have to do the wrong things for the right reasons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The comment follows Nigeria\u2019s border closure over smuggling of goods and how it is affecting Ghanaians and other traders across West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the opportunity to speak to some Abossey-Okai spare parts traders and they admitted that the border closure has really affected them. They told me how their colleagues are stuck behind the borders and how retailers are refusing to take their products back,\u201d he said in an interview with UTV, monitored by <strong>Adomonline.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you take just West Africa we have a market of 300 million and if we trade among ourselves it will benefit us more than trading with other continents because we don\u2019t get enough benefit when we trade with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Adomonline.com | Nana Aba Mensah<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nii Lante Vanderpuye Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, is of the view that Nigeria is being selfish and insensitive for closing its border without considering the negative effects on other Economic Community of West African States countries. \u201cWe see Nigerians as our big brothers in West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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