The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has warned Nigerians to be wary of consuming killer rice that has flooded the market. A statement by the forum’s Media and Public Affairs, Abulrazaque Bello-Barkindo said a communiqué issued by the forum in Abuja last week held that the imported rice contains poisonous substance that make people sick and even kill some who consume them. The statement however lamented that despite the poisonous nature of the rice, the banned product still finds its way to the Nigerian market on increasing rate. “Governors expressed concern that Nigerians were either falling sick or losing their lives to the consumption of this substandard product even though some states have commenced elaborate efforts to produce rice in commercial quantity with a view to halting the nation’s over-reliance on staples that can be produced locally. “Most governors of the states that have already embraced the back to land mantra of this administration frowned at the situation where Nigerians snubbed the locally produced commodity in preference for foreign ones which were most of the time stale, contaminated or even fake,” the statement said. However, Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali who was represented by Deputy Comptroller General, Dangaladima Aminu said that although some measures have and are being put in place to salvage the situation, border communities, however, are part of the challenges to curbing the menace. The Customs boss said this while briefing the Governors’ Forum on the way out of the killer rice danger. “It may interest you to note that a motorcycle can make up to 30 trips with six 50kg bags of rice per night depending on the distance. And when the border communities are not smuggling the produce themselves, they are aiding or providing cover for smugglers.” He informed the governors that the Customs “takes the issue of smuggling of rice seriously, having identified the danger posed by it to the economic well-being and health hazards it constitutes to the Nigerian people.”

This is corruption, who is responsible for the importation

No source ooooo dear OP

So you IMPORTED rice into a country that should be harvesting enough to EXPORT for massive revenue generation.... and you warn that the rice you IMPORTED instead of relying on homegrown.. is poisonous??

This government is truly confused and foolsih to its core.

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lol

not only killer rice both killer beans useless governors

Probably just ergot growth as result of poor storage

Nigerian government why?

BlackForeigner:
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has warned
Nigerians to be wary of consuming killer rice that
has flooded the market.
A statement by the forum’s Media and Public
Affairs, Abulrazaque Bello-Barkindo said a
communiqué issued by the forum in Abuja last
week held that the imported rice contains
poisonous substance that make people sick and
even kill some who consume them.
The statement however lamented that despite the
poisonous nature of the rice, the banned product
still finds its way to the Nigerian market on
increasing rate.
“Governors expressed concern that Nigerians
were either falling sick or losing their lives to the
consumption of this substandard product even
though some states have commenced elaborate
efforts to produce rice in commercial quantity
with a view to halting the nation’s over-reliance
on staples that can be produced locally.
“Most governors of the states that have already
embraced the back to land mantra of this
administration frowned at the situation where
Nigerians snubbed the locally produced
commodity in preference for foreign ones which
were most of the time stale, contaminated or
even fake,” the statement said.
However, Comptroller-General of the Nigeria
Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali who was
represented by Deputy Comptroller General,
Dangaladima Aminu said that although some
measures have and are being put in place to
salvage the situation, border communities,
however, are part of the challenges to curbing the
menace.
The Customs boss said this while briefing the
Governors’ Forum on the way out of the killer rice
danger.
“It may interest you to note that a motorcycle can
make up to 30 trips with six 50kg bags of rice per
night depending on the distance. And when the
border communities are not smuggling the
produce themselves, they are aiding or providing
cover for smugglers.”
He informed the governors that the Customs
“takes the issue of smuggling of rice seriously,
having identified the danger posed by it to the
economic well-being and health hazards it
constitutes to the Nigerian people.”

Idiotic governors. You are raising alarm to who when you are the chief security and chief steward of your states. Your misrule is responsible for the cuurent state of the country.