President
Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS to release for
immediate distribution, bags of rice seized from smugglers. This directive is
part of the palliative measures by the Federal government to cushion the effect
of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed,
announced this during a media briefing in Abuja on Monday morning.
The President has approved grains from the Stategic Grains
Reserves.
The Nigeria Customs Service has in its custody a lot
of rice that has been seized and there is one hundred and fifty trucks of rice
that is now been handed over to the humanitarian ministry for distribution to the
states across the country” she said.
