The Nigerian Customs Service has tightened security at the nation’s borders with the deployment of more of its officers especially to the gateways between Nigeria and Republic of Benin as well as other places.

The move, the NCS said, was aimed at curtailing the activities of rice smugglers.

The development came barely 24 hours after the Director-General, Rice Producers Association of Nigeria, Andy Ekwelem, said that over 566,000MT of rice from Thailand and India had arrived Republic of Benin.

Ekwelega explained that almost all the bags of rice shipped into Benin Republic were smuggled into Nigeria owing to large population of the country and the market size.

The Federal Government had also confirmed on Sunday that there was an increase in the smuggling of rice into Nigeria.

As such, the government said it had convened a meeting involving the NCS and other security agencies to re-strategise on how to address the ugly trend.

Speaking to our correspondent on Monday, the Deputy Public Affairs Officer, NCS, Timi Bomodi, said, “It is always like that at the end of the year, we anticipated this and more officers are going to be deployed to the borders to check the smuggling”

https://punchng.com/rice-smuggling-customs-tighten-nigeria-benin-republic-borders-deploy-more-officers/

Tighten my foot.

More hardship loading....


December period wey Nigerians go dey need rice well well na im Buhari wan close border....

So much for a smart leader....

They will seize rice in the south and share to bandits in the north.

Why is the fulani government not deploying more men and resources to the northern borders to guard against mega smugglings of banned substances and hardened criminals that are going on there?

And why are Yoruba leaders so quiet as a fulani government strangulate economic activities around South West borders in the guise of fighting smugglers while allowing same to thrive up north?

And why is majority of The Heads and members of The Customs, The NPA, The Immigration and all Ports related agencies northerners? Even when most of these activities happen in the South West! Is the SW a captured territory of the fulani?

Well FG need to empower more people who are interested in farming before shutting down the border anyhow

What is FG doing to improve the rice farming in nigeria before tighten the boarder
And the norther boarder is left wide open with for terrorist sponsor to supply weapon to ISWAP, Boko Haram and bandit
Is Only In The West That they are tightend border SMH

Crazy Fulani government making life difficult for ordinary people! Is tightening the Southern borders the next thing or are they trying to keep Southerners within the borders like their Afghanistan brothers did? Or maybe they need rice for the terrorists and bandits up North

Let me tell you all something. It is not about rice smuggling. They are tightening the borders so that when Fulani begin to slaughter you like sheep and cow and take over your villages and ancestral land, you won't be able to escape to Benin Republic. Meanwhile, the borders up in the north are wide open and Fulani and their cows are strolling in unhindered from Chad, niger and wherever else. This is all part of the fulanisation and islamisation of Nigeria. They think we don't know.

great

The clueless government can tighten the borders for food not to come in, but left the same borders for ISWAP and terrorist groups to come in enmass.

Who is deceiving who in this Administration of terrorists ?