Houseontherock1:
Are we having shortage of food or cash to buy them? Even if they sell cheap in naija, many people can't afford it because naira has lost so much value. The only problem is that most of these guys in the North got government grants for farmers so they can sell at a reduced rate to Nigerians but they are now taking their harvests across border which may lead to scarcity and even more food inflation

Good point . My question to you is this . Why should any farmer sell cheaper when everything else is costly ? It is counterproductive from a business sense .

If the government wants to control food prices , then they should start their own farms or buy from the farmers at competitive prices and sell lower . Dont forget that Buhari displayed pyramids of rice ( imported from Niger ) . The farmers stopped producing ?

HugoBoss10:
So normal export of goods from Nigeria has suddenly becomes illegal
There's nothing we can't hear in this emilokan government

Simple English u cannot comprehend. Its smuggling my dear.

Is it the work of EFCC to arrest trucks transporting foodstuffs?.,

You guys should tell us that it's going to Niger or Chad

Donedeal1:
Most people don't know the implications.

Exactly

Life is not all about money 💰 looting, embezzlement and stealing

That's why government is there. No sane Government will completely allow market forces determine the price of it's fuel, electricity, and currency (naira)! When it knows the wages it pays is appalling, unacceptable and a crime against humanity.

Brainlight:
VERY SOON .... EFCC GO DO ...ROAD SATEFY ...WORK SOON.

It is better to expose all those mischievous bastards.

They are using the word smuggling to make it look like a crime meanwhile it's just a food exportation.. but we have been exporting foods to other countries before, why is this one different?

HugoBoss10:
So normal export of goods from Nigeria has suddenly becomes illegal
There's nothing we can't hear in this emilokan government

The farmers were given grants, loans during Buharis regime to help feed the country. They are owing and smuggling the food to get higher money. Tinubu is a don!

Every ngerian has a duty to arrest any economic so bothers now,be you military orparamilitart or bloody civilians,it is your duty now to arrest smugglers,looters,scammers,ritualists, robbers, kidnappers,

As long as it's not illegal to export food items from Nigeria, this is witch hunt. Or probably another antics to shift blame - propaganda. This could even be complete false news as nobody was probably caught.

If the price of foodstuffs is going high, I wonder how higher it can get by exporting to neighboring country

21 truckloads is not childs play.

Nigerians can't afford the food, so they transport it hundreds of kilometers to another country to sell at almost the same profit when you remove fuel and bribe money.

It's criminal offence to take what belongs to Nigerians out of Nigeria. God bless the EFCC for this great multitasking job.

Brainlight:
VERY SOON .... EFCC GO DO ...ROAD SATEFY ...WORK SOON.

When you're supposed brothers are collecting bribes and releasing them for us to later suffer

DuBLINGreenb:
Dem dey smuggle food?

Na so. It's all to create scarcity so people can revolt against the man in power. They're using everything they have to fight him and he is also dealing them blows too.

Saidfx:


The farmers were given grants, loans during Buharis regime to help feed the country. They are owing and smuggling the food to get higher money. Tinubu is a don!

People can't afford the perishable goods.

80% is better than zero percent.
21 truckloads is probably over 4 million naira in diesel alone.

Anguldi:
EFCC don turn Customs abi Border patrol

When you refuse to do your job, others will show you how and take the glory. Besides, it's a financial crime to convert money into foodstuff and try to smuggle it out so you can sell and recover it in money again.

Enemies of Nigeria that want fellow Nigerians to die of hunger hand go touch una soon.

HugoBoss10:
So normal export of goods from Nigeria has suddenly becomes illegal
There's nothing we can't hear in this emilokan government

Brainlight:
VERY SOON .... EFCC GO DO ...ROAD SATEFY ...WORK SOON.

Leave them alone! They just saved the country of 21 trucks of food stuff.

HugoBoss10:
So normal export of goods from Nigeria has suddenly becomes illegal
There's nothing we can't hear in this emilokan government

Oga, the border had been closed against activities like that. It's treason to smuggle out food to neighboring countries when there's man-made scarcity in the land. Its called economic sabotage. Nigeria is a big enough market for such a business.

Melagros:
COMRADES, please when did efcc start conducting stop and search operations? Where were the police and customs officers? Is it not their responsibility?

It's part of their job to prevent economic sabotage. Stop complaining. It's results we want.

Police and army must as a matter of urgency stop the export of all food items. Nigeria is in an emergency food scarcity crisis

thesicilian:

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FOOTSOLDIER2:
Nna mehn, this country should just divide. The north are only supporting the one-nigerian mantra only when it favours them. They never give a fcku about anybody papa down south.

thank u for this ur comment.... Buhari did not just construct a very expensive bridge to Niger for nothing..... Until Nigeria break from the north ...it will never grow....this is how Dy fight u wen ure from other regions ... Dy did dis to GEJ thru boko Haram nw to tinubu who's just entering office thru food scarcity and smuggling... Very pathetic bunch

zikter:
My brother, normal business that people were doing without any hitches. Poor policies couple with wide spread insecurity, resulting to the inability of farmers to go to farm has caused prices to soar and hunger. Instead of government to tackle the root causes, they are busy harassing people doing business.

So those food stuff being smuggled out were grown on the moon and financed by aliens?

Yampotatocarrot:


One thing I'm trying to understand, is there now a ban on exportation of foodstuffs?

What of those that export foodstuffs through the airport to developed countries? Those that export through the airports, their foodstuffs should be seized also na

As you rightly said, this exportation has been going on before now, so except there's now a ban on exportation of foodstuffs, it doesn't seem right

the government is trying to deflect attention away from its failure by blaming farmers who export food as the reason for the food inflation just as it did with Binance/BDC that took the fall for the high cost of dollars

blaise26abj:


Good point . My question to you is this . Why should any farmer sell cheaper when everything else is costly ? It is counterproductive from a business sense .

If the government wants to control food prices , then they should start their own farms or buy from the farmers at competitive prices and sell lower . Dont forget that Buhari displayed pyramids of rice ( imported from Niger ) . The farmers stopped producing ?

If a farmer stressed himself and secured high interest loan to farm (for profit), I see no reason why anyone should tell him where or how to sell indeed. My only concern is when these same people prevent southerners from farming because of their cows

I thought that it is only Igbos that like money?

lexy2014:


EFCC is now looking for food to seize on the expressway?

work no dey again?

what will now happen to the food seized?

It's going to be redistributed back into the polity.

okechuks22:
Food stock is thire food stocks ooo not govt own

But they can collect grants and fertilizer from the government.

Chinedumejoooo:
Leave people to do their businesses.

There are responsibilities, duties and obligations that citizens owe their country. Nigerians are just too flippant about everything. Even to pay tax is wahala for them.

Spandau:


It's going to be redistributed back into the polity.

which polity?

is the polity the source of the food that you say it will be "redistributed back into the polity"?

how will it be distributed and what criteria will be used?

lexy2014:


how is food scarce at home?

did you go to market to buy any food stuff and you were told that it is not available?

Please stop asking silly questions.