President Buhari has ordered the Nigeria Customs Service NCS to release for immediate distribution, bags of rice seized from smugglers.
This directive is part of the palliative measures by the Federal government to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, announced this during a media briefing in Abuja on Monday morning.
The President has approved grains from the Strategic Grains Reserves.
The Nigeria Customs Service has in its custody a lot of rice that has been seized and there is one hundred and fifty trucks of rice that are now been handed over to the humanitarian ministry for distribution to the states across the country” she said.
Recently, Veteran Nollywood actor, Richard Mode-Damijo (RMD) called out Nigerian customs on Instagram to release seized food items in their custody so that Nigerians can feed on them during this challenging period.
According to the 58-year-old, the Federal Government should order the release of seized food items by Nigerian custom so that it will help to feed Nigerians in this critical period.
According to RMD words
“Sitting here wondering if this won’t be a good time for the government to ask Customs about all the plenty seized rice, tomato, vegetable oil and all the other food items they have in their possession and give out to our people in need.
