Buhari Orders Customs To Give Seized Rice Others To IDPs

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered
the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to give
relief materials seized from smugglers in it
warehouses to Internally Displaced Persons,
(IDPs).
PIC 18. OYO/OSUN AREA COMPTROLLER,
NIGERIAN CUSTOMS SERVICES, ALHAJI
MOHAMMED
MUNDU SHOWING ITEMS SEIZED IN
AIYEGUN BORDER OYO STATE ON MONDAY
(5/9/11).
According to the para-military public relations
officer, Wale Adeniyi, the comptroller general
has set up a national committee that would
coordinate and manage the movement and
the transfer of seized relief items to give
effect to the President’s directive.
“It is important to stress that these items are
only those that have been condemned
properly in the competent court of law and
have been forfeited to the Federal
Government of Nigeria.
“They include food items like rice, vegetable
oil, spaghetti and essential items like soap,
used clothing materials, mosquito nets,
beddings and others,’’ he said.
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Mr. Adeniyi said that members of the
committee were drawn from Customs
Service, Army, Air Force, Police, Immigration
Service and the EFCC.
According to him, the customs boss also
included some NGOs, civil society
organisations and the media to give the
committee a measure of transparency and
credibility.
However, he said that the distribution of
relief items to the IDPs would slightly be
different from the previous ones the service
had done.
“This time around, our targets are not the
IDPs camps; our targets are the IDPs
themselves who are in these camps.”
“We expect that the exercise will take a
period of about eight weeks and the trip will
start very soon.
“The exercise is going to be slightly different
from what we have been doing before
because we want these things to end up
directly with the end users.
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“We are going to be working with state
governments, community leaders and other
relief agencies to ensure that these items get
to the IDPs in a secure and transparent
manner,” Mr. Adeniyi assured.
Hundreds of thousands of people were
displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency that
has ravaged north-eastern Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Customs Service
(NCS) has mandated all its officers to declare
their assets.