Coronavirus: Oyo rejects 1,800 bags of rice donated by FG

Four days after it received 1,800 bags of rice from the federal government, the Oyo State government has rejected the rice saying they are not good for human consumptio

The federal government ordered the Nigeria Customs Service to donate 1,800 bags of rice each to Oyo, Osun and Ekiti States, and 800 bags to Ondo State as parts of efforts to cushion the effects of coronavirus on residents of the four states.

The comptroller of Customs, Oyo/Osun command, Helen Ngozi, on Monday handed over the bags of rice each to the governments of Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti.

But, Debo Akande, executive adviser on agribusiness to the Oyo governor, Seyi Makinde, said the government had rejected its own share of rice.

Mr Akande, who made this announcement at a press conference in Ibadan on Friday, said the decision to reject the rice was reached after inspections done by the state’s food security committee of the COVID-19 task force.

He said the state government discovered that the rice were infested by weevil and other pests, and took the decision in the interest of the health of residents of the state.

Mr Akande however said the return of the 1,800 bags will not affect the state’s distribution of aid, noting that the state had gathered enough rice for distribution to citizens.

He added that the state was keen on receiving replacement of the bags of rice from the federal government.

“We received this items from the Federal Government via the federal ministry of humanitarian affairs and we brought them here to the warehouse and in it is in the process of further inspection, that we discovered that almost all the grains of rice has been infested by weevil and other pests,” he said.

“On that basis, we formed a committee to inspect it again so that we are really sure of what we have received and we think this rice is not is not consumable for human being.


“As such, such material cannot be distributed as part of palliatives in the state. We don’t want to start providing solution to a problem and then create another problem. We have done random selection we see that similar thing applies across board and the committee has agreed to return to its source. And if there is any replacement of good quality that will be sent to us, we will be glad to receive it.

“We are returning all the 1,800 bags of rice. We initially assumed that it was just some part of it that was infested but some commissioners from five or six ministries came with me to inspect and we realised that it is not just some but quite a lot of them were infested. We do quality control of all that we receive it is just that that was received from the federal government that we found infeste.”

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You seize people's rice and want to share it to other people?

Someone that is giving you expired rice will now come and handover to you in 2023
Afonjas are their own problems. Right from ages, Igbos don't depend on FG/North for anything.
We're still watching sha

SLAP44:
You seize people's rice and want to share it to other people?

awon werey alasho

Nonsense