Lagosians who want to purchase the government's Lake Rice, which costs N12,000 per 50kg bag, are complaining bitterly.

The news of Lake rice's arrival had been greeted with cheers but when sales began on Thursday, the cheers turned to complaints. Instead of finding relief in the scheme like they had expected, many people in fact had their problems compounded while trying to access the product. The frustration is mounting.

Here are accounts of three residents who were frustrated trying to get the product:

Kelechi Ukatu, from Ori-Okuta, Ikorodu said:

“In my life, I have never suffered the way I did on Thursday,”

“I left my house very early that morning to go to Farm Service Centre in Odogunyan where the LAKE Rice was to be sold for interested buyers living around Ikorodu. Of course by the time I got there around 10:00am, I met more than 200 people who had already registered and gone to pay in the bank. By the time it was my turn to register my name; I was the 700th person for that day alone.

“While I was still there, waiting to get a teller to go and pay in the bank, the 200 people who had already paid were asked to wait for their payments to be confirmed at the state secretariat at Alausa before they would be given their rice. Many of them waited for hours and later left the place angrily after some of the officials asked them to check back the next day.

“A lot of people also left in frustration after waiting several hours just to get a teller to go and pay in the bank. I left the place by 1:00pm without recording any success. On Friday morning, I went back to check, the situation was worse, I had to give up. I am just pained that I wasted that much time waiting in a queue for something that won’t even get to me. If not for God, I could have fainted in the midst of that suffering,” she said, fuming with rage.

Mr. Ayodele Bamgbose, another Ikorodu resident said:

“It is a good thing that the Lagos State Government came up with this idea of selling bags of rice for N12, 000 each but their good intention has turned to a huge disappointment for many of us who cannot even get to buy the product even after visiting the Odogunyan centre for two days.

“Apart from the large number of people at the place, the process one is subjected to before he or she can purchase just one bag is not fair. In fact, if you are not healthy, you could faint in the process.

“How can people wait in the queue for more than two hours just to register and be given tellers to go and pay in the bank? Even by the time you pay and come back, they tell you they have to confirm if your payment has reflected in the server in Alausa. This is madness to me; it does not make sense in any way,” he said.

“How can they ask us to provide our LASRA cards just because we want to purchase rice?” Bunmi Ogunleye, a hairdresser, asked angrily. “It is not as if it’s a document that every resident of Lagos has yet, so I don’t know why that should be used as a condition to purchase the LAKE Rice. I left the centre I visited because the idea did not make any sense to me,” she said.

There were similar tales of frustration and disappointment in many of the sales points across most local government areas of Lagos between Thursday and Friday. For many, the exercise had not lived up to their expectations especially with the criteria adopted to select beneficiaries.


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But aren't they enjoying the rice

onatisi its like i go go for OCEAN RICE

Na by force to chop rice? What is so special about rice anyway?

What is special about rice sef?
Eat any good damn thing you can readily buy with your money !!

Nigerians like celebrating mediocrity. Citizens queueing for several hours just to buy basic foodstuff is not an achievement.

Anambra's phantom rice was claimed to be exported, so that people will not say they didn't see any rice

Kudos to Lagos... But they shld have collected cash

All the same, kudos...

Essential commodity is back period

U waste 15000 naira worth of energy to buy 12k Rice...it's well. Me no fit disturb myself like this cos of rice when a cup of beans (Oloyin) na 200 box. Afterall, 25th will come and go!

this is change for zombies as they queue up to buy common rice . when ur president lacks logical reasoning and analytical deduction , this is what u get.

Wetin Kelechi Ukatu dey complain for ?? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah


Shebi Buhari na monster and una no want anything from am



Anyways , There's bound to be complications because FG chose to oversee the sales

I trust my Nna brosses , if given the chance, they will buy a truckload and sell it at 20k per bag , for them its bizineezi

ernesty20:
When will yoruba rice come out?

I hope you enjoyed your comment while it lasted ?

KINGwax007:
Anambra's phantom rice was claimed to be exported, so that people will not say they didn't see any rice

Kudos to Lagos... But they shld have collected cash

All the same, kudos...

I've come to find out its only kids that turn serious issues into tribal slur and war.


Growing up is very important for you

OZAOEKPE:
onatisi its like i go go for OCEAN RICE

Apc keep scamming Nigerians ,
When will Nigerians start using their brains
Haba I cant still believe this
Are Nigerians this dumbly stupid or is hunger that is affecting their brains . When will they see through these politicians tricks and gimmicks.
I think it is time I also contest ooooo
Haba

DaBullIT:
Wetin Kelechi Ukatu dey complain for ?? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah


Shebi Buhari na monster and una no want anything from am



Anyways , There's bound to be complications because FG chose to oversee the sales

I trust my Nna brosses , if given the chance, they will buy a truckload and sell it at 20k per bag , for them its bizineezi

Kelechi is a Nigeria who resides in Lagos in the same Nigeria and pays his tax.

People made genuine complaints and the only thing you could do was to start profiling them.


Please stand in queue behind that Kingwax above and grow up when he finishes his own

Kathmandu:
I've come to find out its only kids that turn serious issues into tribal slur and war.


Growing up is very important for you

since u never write jamb, it is only safe and a fact for me to say, 'i am old enough to be ur fada'..

No insult intended.

Was Anambra rice not imported instead of being sold to the masses when rice was even a dire issue?

Now, the above question only matters if there was actually an Anambra planted rice and not the same ugu issue... I wonder where the ugu and rice come dey now sef..

hahahahaha, So now we are discussing tax and being Nigerian ? the enugu protesters and Biafra crooners will beg to differ


Shurrup dia joor , wot duyu no

Kathmandu:
Kelechi is a Nigeria who resides in Lagos in the same Nigeria and pays his tax.

People made genuine complaints and the only thing you could do was to start profiling them.


Please stand in queue behind that Kingwax above and grow up when he finishes his own

Oh and the person you quoted was right , there was news about anambra rice selling for 9K , what happened to all that stock ? did wike buy it and share it during elections ??

Kathmandu:
I've come to find out its only kids that turn serious issues into tribal slur and war.


Growing up is very important for you

https://www.nairaland.com/3267971/anambra-rice-circulation-sells-n9000


Internet keeps all records , it'll be nice if you used some sense

KINGwax007:
since u never write jamb, it is only safe and a fact for me to say, 'i am old enough to be ur fada'..

No insult intended.

Was Anambra rice not imported instead of being sold to the masses when rice was even a dire issue?

Now, the above question only matters if there was actually an Anambra planted rice and not the same ugu issue... I wonder where the ugu and rice come dey now sef..

The issue on ground is about people that couldn't buy the rice at the approved centre but in your adult brain it should be trivalised into tribal war or infantile ego supremcy

That is why I am sticking to my Lagoon rice. N8000 per 50KG. If u need this rice but u must be an IPOB, contact the oba of Lagos through this phone number 07036563212.

Buhari is a monumental error. His 2 tenures(1984 & 2016) ensured that people queued for food! What a generational mistake

It's really somehow that Buhari didn't bring out some of his cows as a gift to Christians this season ..


He needs to fire his advicers too, I can do better.

I pity this aluasa government workers. Governor Ambode should look into this because rice is about to load Shikena !!

I see the 1984 scenario playing out again: people had to queue to buy basic food stuff.

The best title to capture our current situation "Back to '84"

Nigeria, it's now difficult to buy RICE. Smh

All those processes just to buy rice

Complain that what ?

What is this all about


Why do they like complaining aleays

Emekamex:
Nigerians like celebrating mediocrity. Citizens queueing for several hours just to buy basic foodstuff is not an achievement.

All na CHANGE.
Surely, APC is scam.
And scam is APC.

Hello nairalanders
Pls who can bless me with little amount to celebrate Xmas, abeg country z bad

Tnx in advance

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