“We are transporting garri from Benue to Jibiya, only for us to get here and were told the road is blocked. We do not know the cause of this, all we know is that there was a coup in Niger and that does not concern Nigeria,” he told this newspaper.Ashiru Abdullahi photo credit- Chiamaka Okafor Premium Times“We have found ourselves in a situation where we can only ask Allah to save us from misfortune.
The truckers collectively pleaded with the government to rethink its decisions as their livelihoods are being threatened by the sanctions imposed on Niger.This reporter went to the Dankama border where she observed strict adherence to the sanctions with customs and immigration officers manning the border post.
Nigeria's 1,600 kilometres border with Niger runs from the tripoint with Benin in the west to the tripoint with Chad in the east. Over 200,000 people live in those border communities, according to official figures. One such community is Dankama, a rural community on the Nigerian…