The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday said it distributed about 8,000 bags of rice to orphanages and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Calabar, Cross River recently.   The Public Relations Officer of the service, Mr Joseph Attah disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.

Attah said apart from bags of rice, used clothing and vegetable oil were also distributed to the beneficiaries.   According to him, the gesture is a directive from the Federal Government to distribute seized items to IDPs and orphanages.

“We started from the North-East, we distributed similar items in Zone A, that is South-West, we did the same thing in the North-West and some parts of North-Central, which is Zone B.

“We are currently in Zone C comprises of South -South and South-East states of the country,” he said.   Attah said that Imo and Enugu states would be the next to receive such items for IDPs and orphanages, while the committee would round up the distribution in the zone at Port-Harcourt.   He explained that for any orphanage to benefit in the disbursement it must produce a certificate of registration by Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

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Not a bad one

God bless the poor...

It's better than destroying it

I'm glad you people now have sense.
Instead of wasting them.
Next time add other ingredients + chicken

Abeg who apply for the custom job?
When is the exam date pls?

Nice one, rather than the seized goods which are of no health hazard get incinerated.

8000 bags of seized rice....robbing Peter to pay Paul

Good. But customs should find a way of imposing fines. Not always outright seizures

davillian:
I'm glad you people now have sense.
Instead of wasting them.
Next time add other ingredients + chicken

Go import chicken make dem seize am na, so dem go see chicken to share.

Pavore9:


Go import chicken make dem seize am na, so dem go see chicken to share.

I de Lagos now smugglers still de bring frozen chicken from kotunu

Hope the quality control have certified it safe for consumption sha

aolawale025:
Good. But customs should find a way of imposing fines. Not always outright seizures

I think it is safer to keep away from importing banned products because it becomes the prerogative of the government to deal with seized goods as it deems fit.

aolawale025:
Good. But customs should find a way of imposing fines. Not always outright seizures

My exacts thoughts too.

Customs should a way of encpuraging people to bring in good from various means and collect duties. It mustn't be from the seaport or airport. The reason smugglers use other means especially countries we share borders with is because of the high cost of duties on items.

E.g. buy a car NGN350,000, buy duties over NGN350,000. Say wetin happen nah?

Pavore9:


I think it is safer to keep away from importing banned products because it becomes the prerogative of the government to deal with seized goods as it deems fit.

Those goods banned, are we producing enough? They need to do two things that are essential before banning:

1. Step up incentives and encourage people to produce the goods that are currently imported
2. Relax the duties

Also while we are it, NDLEA should not burn mj again. They should also distribute to men that need it.

davillian:


I de Lagos now smugglers still de bring frozen chicken from kotunu

Chicken cheap there, I bought 2 kg there in 2017 and walked through the border with it but government agencies' personnel there plenty o!

Finally una don dey use una iroro... Remain dos vehicles wey una granded.. Make una begin dey share am 4 boiz

dfrost:


Those goods banned, are we producing enough?

Nigeria is a consumer nation, producing so little but it is a gamble smuggling goods in. Once "your people" are at the border, you are good to go.

Pavore9:


Nigeria is a consumer nation, producing so little but it is a gamble smuggling goods in. Once "your people" are at the border, you are good to go.

Thanks Pav. I agree with you. How's Kenya?

Is it not the same foreign rice they told us that it is poisonous?https://www.channelstv.com/2019/05/16/stop-eating-foreign-rice-they-are-poisonous-custom-boss/


https://thenationonlineng.net/thai-rice-poisonous-ogbeh-warns/

Pavore9:


Nigeria is a consumer nation, producing so little but it is a gamble smuggling goods in. Once "your people" are at the border, you are good to go.

dfrost:


Thanks Pav. I agree with you. How's Kenya?

We good, na cold just dey wire person!

Look at their stomachs..... 80,000 have been shared amongst them before they decided to distribute only 8,000.

Nigerian custom stinks of corruption and nothing can remedy that institution.

Hummmm

I thought custom say they're poison

After claiming that imported rice is poisonous? What a contradiction.

https://www.nairaland.com/5191420/hameed-ali-imported-rice-poisonous#78446505

For the first time i appreciate what customs did. Nice 1

This is the smart thing to do instead of destroying them as they usually do