President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered
the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to give
relief materials seized from smugglers in it
warehouses to Internally Displaced Persons,
(IDPs).

According to the para-military public relations
officer, Wale Adeniyi, the comptroller general has set up a national committee that would
coordinate and manage the movement and the
transfer of seized relief items to give effect to the President’s directive.
“It is important to stress that these items are only those that have been condemned properly in the competent court of law and have been forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“
They include food items like rice, vegetable oil,
spaghetti and essential items like soap, used
clothing materials, mosquito nets, beddings and
others,’’ he said.
Mr. Adeniyi said that members of the committee
were drawn from Customs Service, Army, Air
Force, Police, Immigration Service and the EFCC.

According to him, the customs boss also included some NGOs, civil society organisations and the
media to give the committee a measure of
transparency and credibility.
However, he said that the distribution of relief
items to the IDPs would slightly be different from
the previous ones the service had done.

“This time around, our targets are not the IDPs
camps; our targets are the IDPs themselves who
are in these camps.”
“We expect that the exercise will take a period of
about eight weeks and the trip will start very
soon.
“
The exercise is going to be slightly different from
what we have been doing before because we
want these things to end up directly with the end
users.

“We are going to be working with state
governments, community leaders and other relief agencies to ensure that these items get to the IDPs in a secure and transparent manner,” Mr. Adeniyi assured.

Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced
by the Boko Haram insurgency that has ravaged
north-eastern Nigeria.

https://www.naij.com/699052-buhari-orders-customs-give-seized-rice-vegetable-oil-others-idps.html

Cc: mynd44, seun himself

Instead of wasting food items, give them to the poor. I support this.

If we still have anybody or group of people that's still wailing about buhari's government, please let common sense take over

While i am no in support of bringing in contraband items, something tells me that if PMB could order the enterprising nature of Southerners to be transfered to Northerners he would do it without giving a second thought

Pidggin:
If he could order the enterprising nature of Southerners to be transfered to Northerners i am sure he would do it without giving a second thought

you are a waste of semen. The pre frontal network of ur brain is damaged, u can't think right, your judgement is impaired. Its because of people like u we are finding it hard to move foward in nigeria

Fesomu:

Why all the insult? You know I am saying the truth.

Pidggin:

Why all this insult? You know I am saying the truth.

May God help u