EXPOSED! - SENATOR ADAMU ALIERO AND THE POLITICS OF RICE! Nigeria’s senate and the consortium of some business moguls in the country have step up behind the scenes movements to halt the efforts of the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari in making food available for the nation’s citizens in the near future. It could be recalled that the Administrator of the Nigeria Custom Rtd. Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, has ordered the immediate lift of ban for rice importation into the country with a view to making rice available at a relative low price. Under this arrangement, rice is expected to be sold at maximum of six thousand Naira (N6,000) instead of its present average price of ten thousand Naira (N10,000). But the Senate is being used to abort this plan in favour of the millers, smugglers and bigwigs farmers who have been exploiting Nigerians by making rice one of the most expensive commodities on earth. In its seating of Tuesday the 13th of October, the Nigerian Senate passed a resolution to a motion raised by Senator Adamu Aliero from Kebbi State on stopping the Custom from lifting the rice ban in Nigerian boarders. For the record, Senator Aliero who was two times Governor of Kebbi State, is one of the Nigeria’s biggest Rice Millers, he owns the Labana Rice Mills located at Sani Abacha Bye Pass in Birnin Kebbi, so he could not allow such a favour of allowing Nigerian masses to get rice at a very low price as targeted by the Nigerian Custom new leadership under Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd). He (Sen Aliero) was a custom officer, and of course one the most corruptible officers that the custom service had ever produced in Nigeria. It was allegedly gathered that Aliero was found with gross misconduct when he was serving the NCS, he was probed by a panel and recommended for dismissal, but having presented certificate of a psychiatric hospital describing him as mentally ill, the Nigeria Custom Service accepted his voluntary resignation in place of the proposed dismissal after which he contested for Governorship election in his home State Kebbi. It is proved that the Senate is the only entity that is frequently used against the present administration and Senator Aliero represents both the enemies of Nigeria in the Senate and the conglomerate of Rice Millers, Rice Smugglers and those that almost destroyed the Nigeria Custom in the last three decades. Col. Hameed Ali would appear before the Senate next week to explain his reasons for lifting of the rice importation ban which was meant to make rice available at a very low price for the next two years pending when the Nigerian government plans to redouble efforts in significantly increasing the rice production within the Country are put in place. Fellow Nigerians, let’s support Col. Hammed Ali with all we can against the devilish Nigerian Senate that is all out to mocking the desired change we have been looking forward to see in a New Nigeria. Written by Sanusi Bature Dawakintofa. 16/10/2015.

At least the man has rice mills that will produce Nigerian rice, employ Nigerians, grow Nigerian rice industry, reduce our dependence on importation of foreign rice.

What are the short term and long term implications of continuous importation?

Loss of Nigerian jobs
Loss of industry expertise
Dependent of rice importation on foreign exchange