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The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) after its last meeting in Abuja issued a communique expressing worries over the quality of rice being sold in the country.
NGF's head of Media and Public Affairs, Abulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, said a large consignment of rice still finding its way into the Nigerian market was imported since 2014 when the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration issued a liberal import licence regime to those who were able to bring substantial quantity of rice into the country using a waiver from the presidency at the time.
“Governors expressed concern that Nigerians were either falling sick or losing their lives to the consumption of this substandard produce even though some states have commenced elaborate efforts to produce rice in commercial quantity with a view to halting the nation’s over-reliance on staples that can be produced locally.
They urge Nigerians to buy locally produced rice.
“Most governors of the states that have already embraced the back to land mantra of this administration frowned at the situation where Nigerians snubbed the locally produced commodity in preference for foreign ones which were most of the time stale, contaminated or even fake,” the statement said.
NGF's head of Media and Public Affairs, Abulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, said a large consignment of rice still finding its way into the Nigerian market was imported since 2014 when the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration issued a liberal import licence regime to those who were able to bring substantial quantity of rice into the country using a waiver from the presidency at the time.
“Governors expressed concern that Nigerians were either falling sick or losing their lives to the consumption of this substandard produce even though some states have commenced elaborate efforts to produce rice in commercial quantity with a view to halting the nation’s over-reliance on staples that can be produced locally.
They urge Nigerians to buy locally produced rice.
“Most governors of the states that have already embraced the back to land mantra of this administration frowned at the situation where Nigerians snubbed the locally produced commodity in preference for foreign ones which were most of the time stale, contaminated or even fake,” the statement said.
