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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has advised the Senate to focus on lawmaking and not usurp the powers of other arms of government.
The agency reacted angrily to a two-week ultimatum the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges issued for the return of bags of rice seized at Oja Oba and Bodija markets in Ibadan, Oyo.
NCS Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah said the NCS is backed by law to storm anywhere once there is enough intelligence on contraband.
Attah stated that Customs has been raiding markets for years and wondered why the Senate was furious about the Ibadan episode.
By James Emejo
Rice farmers under the umbrella of the Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN), yesterday kicked against the directive by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to return the smuggled goods it impounded from rice traders’ shops in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The group stated that the resolution of the committee was at variance with the resolve of both the federal government and Nigerians to grow local capacity in the rice sector in order to achieve food security.
The association also argued that the “Nigerian rice is affordable, and within the reach of the Nigerian people”.
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Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele has on Thursday dismissed the possibility of lifting the current import ban placed on maize.
On the same day, Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) disagreed with a directive by Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to Nigeria Customs Service to return imported rice carted away during midnight raids on markets in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Emefiele who reportedly spoke in Katsina during the unveiling of the first maize pyramid and flag-off of the 2021 Maize wet season farming under the CBN Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN) Anchor Borrowers’ Programme expressed belief that Nigerian youth could leverage their talents, along with technological tools to improve farm productivity and delivery of agricultural produce to markets.