Adedayo Akinwale ín Abuja



The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hamid Ali (rtd), Thursday revealed that the service has intercepted 25 containers of expired rice at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos.

Ali disclosed this in Abuja at the fourth National Assembly hearing on the proposed 2020 budget.
He told the federal legislators that the decision to close the country’s land boarders was not driven solely for increased revenue collection but has security consideration.

He stated: “I want to take this opportunity to tell this house that we have now 25 containers of rice we intercepted in Tin Can Island Port. Each of them contained 100 bags of rice that were clearly stamped with the expiration date of May 2018. I have said it here that 90 per cent of the smuggled rice has expired.

“In Thailand and India, when their rice expired, they would buy a portion of the sea to dump them. But our men will go there and pick them. Moreover, some Indians and Lebanese who care nothing about our health, about our wellbeing will come and re-bag then with new expiry date and this is what we consume.”

Ali also claimed that the border closure has contributed to the reduction in banditry and kidnapping in the far north, adding that the border closure has cut off the supply of arms to the bandits.

He further explained that revenue collected by the NCS has increased to N6 billion daily against N4.7 billion it used to collect before the borders were sealed up as those who used to patronize Cotonu ports are now being constrained to utilise Nigerian ports.

He also stated that 80 per cent of the consignments at the ports were not properly documented and agreed that NCS has no scanners at the various ports but subject cargoes to 100 per cent inspection.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/10/25/customs-intercepts-25-containers-of-expired-rice-in-tin-can-island/

What happens afterwords? The same custom
officials sells the rice to people at cheap prices




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OMG! What have we been eating?.. Abeg where i fit get snipper, i need to purge this out!

So bad!! Thank God it was intercepted!!

Chisos... Next stop.. Repackaging

Some dude forgot to roger

Local man is tired

may God help us all

Omo make una close the boarder till 2023

na waoo, this is serious

so they expect us to be like?

I don't know what to think of the clampdown as the government policies have been counter productive these days ..


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Revenue of 6billion daily...

Yet Buhari is busy depleting our reserve and borrowing money

Although am not a Buharist but on the closing of border ,I'm in support of that, the local rice i bought is neat & free of stone 19k, if they package it in the bag of foreign and sold it for me for 26k , i wouldn't have know that the content is local .

OSUigboFlatHead:
expired indeed

Most of these criminals calling themselves customs have opened shops for their wives and girlfriends. They are now the major distributors of all these seized items

Gbam

You filled your shop with bags of rice, when you couldn't sell them before they expire, you buy another mama gold rice sack and resack. Same goes with computer inks, Tin tomatoes, beverages. Except you are buying fresh, Almost everything we are consume in this country are expired.

Okay

EFCC and Customs they are on fire

I didn't know rice had expiring date.

Na wa o, people should settle for Ofada, it's not 100% bad.

idoti no dey kill black man.

skyblueking:
OMG!
What have we been eating?..
Abeg where i fit get snipper, i need to purge this out!

You wan kee yasef?

God help us in this country.

ZombieTERROR:
Revenue of 6billion daily...

Yet Buhari is busy depleting our reserve and borrowing money

Trust me, you knowest not your President.

Mi bloodclaat

Shey you have parents, ehhnn carry your investment go give dem. Abi you no want make dem make the 20% daily.
Rubbbsh

Okiti1:
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