Nigerians on Monday expressed outrage after it emerged that Indian-packaged garri was being sold in the country.

The garri is packed in a 500g bag, which has the picture of a lady and an inscription, ‘TRS’ (Asia’s Finest Foods) on it, with a price tag of N450.

The Executive Director, Natural Nutrient Limited, Sola Adeniyi, expressed dismay at the development in a post entitled, “Attention: Indian garri being sold in Nigerian supermarkets,” which he shared on WhatsApp.

According to Adeniyi, who is an agribusiness development value chain expert, the sale of the Indian-packaged garri in Nigeria is an absurdity of monumental proportion and a shame.

He said, “Our government and regulatory agencies (if they still exist) should cover their faces in shame. I would like to ask: how much were you paid in bribe? Is this how far we are mentally bankrupt? We are indeed in a big mess in this nation. Can you imagine imported garri from India now selling in shops in Nigeria and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control approved this?

“So, we finally have consigned our dear country to a dumping ground for all forms of Asian mindless madness. Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava for crying out loud, but here we are shamelessly displaying Indian-made garri and not corn flakes on our shelves.

Nigerians also took to the social media space to condemn the act, one of them writing on Nairaland with the user name, smartiyke78, said, “I am ashamed of this country called Nigeria.

“The other day, it was imported packaged jollof rice from India or China. As if that embarrassment was not enough, now this is garri. What a shame to all who call themselves leaders and decision makers. Could this be the result of the incessant unprofitable travels the President was making?

“I just hope Nigeria has not been sold out in the name of some clueless economic partnership.”

Another user, Dauda Abu, wrote, “Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava. How on earth should we be importing garri into our market? We are not encouraging our industry to grow at all.”

Following the outrage, NAFDAC raided the shop located along Cameron Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

According to the Acting Director-General of NAFDAC, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, the agency’s officers visited the supermarket on Monday and seized 26 packs of the product for analysis.

“The product has no NAFDAC number. It is said to be from Ghana but packaged in the United Kingdom. The management of the supermarket has been invited for further discussion in our Lagos office and investigation continues,” she said in a text message in response to an enquiry by our correspondent.


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Our Government has failed us woefully.....

Just when you think you've heard it all. Indian packaged garri sold in Nigeria? Chai Naija own don finish. First it was canned egusi soup,next was jollof rice and now our very own garri. Very soon China and Indian will start exporting amala and ewedu or canned isiewu and nkwobi to Nigeria.

grayht:
Our Government has failed us woefully.....

Chicken self dey report for duty.

This is one of the reasons our naira will continue to fall like a water fall......am too sorry for this country.

...no way we can dodge the capital punishment on Nigeria saboteurs!

a big slap on Nigeria face!! Nothing is working again in this countri...

And part of this scarce foreign exchange was used to import the garri.

Part of this scarce foreign exchange has been used by several politicians to visit Buhari in the United Kingdom

Part of this scarce foreign exchange has been used to pay British doctors for the past one month by Buhari.

Part of this scarce foreign exchange has been used to cover Buhari's expenses in the United Kingdom for the past one month.

With all these foreign exchange would always be scarce. We have to earn our own foreign exchange and stop depending on the CBN or BDC's. If you want to earn your own foreign exchange check my signature.

grayht:
Our Government has failed us woefully.....

We Nigerians have failed ourselves, when Indian sees opportunities where the owners sees non.

Lalasticlacla, leave Jodha Akhbar and come fast....




This Thread Just Weak me....

where sarrki they sef

grayht:
Our Government has failed us woefully.....

Biafran army ...

Unnecessary mentions