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Tinubu Directs Customs to Return Seized Food Items to Owners

Bola Ahmed Tinubu - GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Nigerian Customs Service to return all seized grains to their owners for onward retailing in the Nigerian markets to ameliorate the ongoing Food Crisis

This was disclosed by the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi at a stakeholder meeting at Kwangwalam, a border town in the Maiadua Local Government Area of Katsina State on Saturday.

“The directive was given by the president in his magnanimous gesture of ensuring that people of the country have enough food to buy at cheaper prices from the markets.”

However, the return of the confiscated food items to the owners was based only on the condition that it would be marketed in the Nigerian markets, he said.

“The whole idea is to promote food security and ensure that Nigerians will not be living with hunger and Mr President considers this as one of the strategies that can help address the problem of food security.

“We have over 120 trucks of food items for export seized, which means a lot of food items were taken out of our markets, leading to the unavailability that created some pressure on the prices of these food items. So, we hope that by the time we restock our markets, it will have some positive effects on the prices,” he said.

Earlier, it was reported that the CGC revealed that the President is the only one with the power to declare all borders of the country open.

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