Kebbi State former governor, Senator Adamu Aliero has cried out to Nigerians.

He said: “The closure of the border under the Economic Community of West African States directive as unnecessary. The authorities to reverse the directive.”

“Our people living in the communities that shared the border with Niger are the ones suffering and bearing the brunt.”

“If you go to the border today, you will see over a thousand trucks coming back to the country with goods from different countries but are stuck in the border because of this ECOWAS sanction.”

“Even the agreement we had with the country on the dredging of dam supplying our electricity has been breached when the government decided to cut off the light supply to the Niger Republic.”

“Most other countries did not observe sanctions as outlined by ECOWAS on the Niger Republic.”

“Most of the sanctions, especially the closure of the border and cutting off electricity supply to the country, only had negative effects on ordinary citizens and not the military junta, as was expected.”