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Renaissance Capital’s Charlie Robertson mocks Nigeria, advises FG to close airports to pizza smuggling
Renaissance Capital’s Global Chief Economist, Charlie Robertson, has sarcastically advised the federal government to close its airports to imports.
Robertson, in his reaction to report of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kam Industries, Kamorudeen Yusuf, urging the Federal Government to replicate the closure of Nigeria’s land borders on its sea borders, asked if airports are next as pizza is still illegally smuggled into Nigeria from London.
Yusuf had made the sea border closure suggestion in Kwara State during a familiarisation visit by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, to his privately owned steel manufacturing industry.
He had alleged that the Nigerian market is flooded with substandard steel products as the country’s seaports are still porous.
Charlie who mocked the claims made, sarcastically asked if airports are next as pizza is still illegally smuggled into Nigeria from London.
He tweeted,
“Airports next? It’s about time someone stops the illegal smuggling of pizzas in from London”
Former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, while appearing before a senate committee on agriculture in March 2019 alleged that some Nigerians import pizza from London.
According to the former minister, those making the orders usually do so in the morning through the British Airways airlines.
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