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Advertisement Despite being Africa’s highest producer of rice, Nigeria spent an average of $4.2bn on its importation. These statistics were the basis on which the ban on rice importation was implemented in 2019. The importation ban was initially for the revival of the nation’s economy which is mainly agrarian. However, the laudable strategy could not stop the smuggling of foreign rice by wayward local and foreign merchants especially from the nation’s neighboring countries; Niger, Cameroon and Benin Republic, who are not producers of rice but re-export to Nigeria.   This smuggling has impeded positive strides made by both private sectors and various government investments in the Rice sub-sector to increase its local capacity. Bearing the brunt of this misdeed has been the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). Each time the menace arises, the NCS is presumed to give the green light for law-breaking individuals to bring in the prohibited commodity without any scrutiny.

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