Or payment via POS

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...

The lake rice is not produce in Lagos.It is an imported rice that is repackaged by Lagos state government.

PMB regime and essential commodities happened first in 1984 now happening again

EdifiedCEO:
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.


http://www.newshelm.com/2016/12/lagosians-complain-bitterly-about-lake.html

na wa ooo...just to purchase rice

h

Just a simple POS at the venue solves this problem.

what a country.

i bought anambra rice at the price of 14k at ifite ogwari,the bags are very full.

onatisi:

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

Sweetguy25:
Na by force to chop rice? What is so special about rice anyway?

I wonder o...when correct eba and better soup.

I thought the rice taste bitter or was not edible enough..... We should not expect the sales of the rice to be stressfree because alot of people will want to benefit from such bonus..

Why on earth are Nigerians eating so much rice? No wonder there has been an upsurge in diabetes and heart related diseases.

old school folks working with government, they should have accepted payment with ATM card through POS instead of asking people to make payments at the bank.

Love Machine:
The lake rice is not produce in Lagos.It is an imported rice that is repackaged by Lagos state government.

Where is it produced?

.

NO pos?
Why is our government like this

DaBullIT:
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

Your stupidity not only stinks, it's also legendary.

AaaHH!!! Reminiscent of the Essential Commodity queues of yesteryear... I love when history repeats itself.

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

Bros, you dont have to queue. Just go to the market with your N16 - N17k and you will buy rice in less than 5min and go back home.


Its like when there is kerosine scarcity, join queue at nnpc filling station and buy at regulated price, go to any other place and buy at their price and be on your way

Sarrki n madridguy u mean?

reptile1:
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.

moralex:
old school folks working with government, they should have accepted payment with ATM card through POS instead of asking people to make payments at the bank.

True, amongst other mobile banking platforms...

BT I support the insistence of LASSRA i.d...

LorDBolton:


Where is it produced?

i think kebbi state, i really don't understand the rational of state governments selling rice, we're going back to the infamous essential commodity era of buhari's first regime.

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

Tnx in advance

Inbox me your account details.. I will send you something..

HughWilliams:


Inbox me your account details.. I will send you something..

no wine the guy o

Make sure the rice is not plastic sha

Never see good in any good things .
Enemies of progress !

Love Machine:
The lake rice is not produce in Lagos.It is an imported rice that is repackaged by Lagos state government.

Imported from Israel or thailand abi?

Buhari is synonymous with scarcity and sufferings whenever he is in power. Ask those who were alive in 1983, 84. You zombies voted for him.

Sweetguy25:
Na by force to chop rice? What is so special about rice anyway?

I wonder o.Govt always making things difficult for its citizens.I blamed the people who are going there to que for ordinary rice you would have brought anywhere without stress.Must one buy bag.

No thanks to the demonic/despotic/self-serving nomad & his ANTI-POEPLE policies!
....kudos to ambode,though it could be better.
After-all, Half bread is better than none!

OZAOEKPE:
onatisi its like i go go for OCEAN RICE

omo me dey chill with river rice for here mehn

this is comically stupid. Where in the world do people register, receive tellers and go to the bank just to buy a bag of rice?


Government in Nigeria don't know how to do business. No business man would run his business like this.

HughWilliams:


Inbox me your account details.. I will send you something..

I don't know how to send mail here Sir, but here z my acct details

Oyeleke J
3097119305
First bank

Tnx