At the event, Oni explained that no plastic rice was imported into the country.
She, however, said the seized rice was “contaminated with microorganisms above permissible limit.”
“Based on the above laboratory result, the product is not plastic but rice contaminated with micro-organisms above permissible limit, hence the seized rice consignment is unsatisfactory and therefore unwholesome for human consumption. The consignment upon handover by the Nigeria Customs Service shall be destroyed,” Oni emphasised.
While explaining the circumstances surrounding the alleged plastic rice, he said the NCS only responded to a security alert issued by the Office of the National Security Adviser on the importation of plastic rice into the country.
On the bags of good rice seized from traders who illegally imported the staple food to Nigeria, Ilya explained that the NCS had after subjected the rice to test had given them to IDPs.
He said, “We have seized over 40,000 bags of rice so far since the ban on importation of rice through the land borders. Those are the bags of rice that are being shared to the IDPs camps. But that is after we have tested and certified them suitable for consumption.”
He urged warehouse owners across the country not to accept smuggled products into their facilities.
She, however, said the seized rice was “contaminated with microorganisms above permissible limit.”
“Based on the above laboratory result, the product is not plastic but rice contaminated with micro-organisms above permissible limit, hence the seized rice consignment is unsatisfactory and therefore unwholesome for human consumption. The consignment upon handover by the Nigeria Customs Service shall be destroyed,” Oni emphasised.
While explaining the circumstances surrounding the alleged plastic rice, he said the NCS only responded to a security alert issued by the Office of the National Security Adviser on the importation of plastic rice into the country.
On the bags of good rice seized from traders who illegally imported the staple food to Nigeria, Ilya explained that the NCS had after subjected the rice to test had given them to IDPs.
He said, “We have seized over 40,000 bags of rice so far since the ban on importation of rice through the land borders. Those are the bags of rice that are being shared to the IDPs camps. But that is after we have tested and certified them suitable for consumption.”
He urged warehouse owners across the country not to accept smuggled products into their facilities.
From Punch
*There must be some sort of communication breakdown between those who claim they have plastic rice and NAFDAC....can NAFDAC not set up a committee to allow those who claim they have plastic rice step forward?
Let her be plastering her face there, instead of looking for plastic rice. Namsense
ReplyDeleteIs alright
ReplyDeleteI guess that video we watched with a man in the background saying 'negodu ihe nu ne ri' was shot in Jamaica
ReplyDeleteI wonder o!
DeleteNo mind dem
DeleteYea. Or maybe Cameroon
DeleteAll these govt reps will tell you that black is white and force you to believe it.
DeleteWhat about the videos online... Are they blind or just trying to cover up their fuck up.....
ReplyDeleteIf you boil plastic, what happens? It melts. That video was silly. If you set fire on dry rice and a little bit of groundnut oil, it will burn. That doesnt mean its plastic. Someone should show a video of cooked plastic rice before i can believe this Bullshit.
DeleteWhatever happened to our brains. I will believe a BV with first hand information about plastic rice not all this propaganda of someone elses experience.
Thank you mr #Aboki
DeleteTell them the ignorant,literate-illiterate BVs...
Mighty ants cannot degrade the polymers found in plastics,how much more human digestive system that cannot degarade common cellulose found in grass.
Also between growing rice and makind the so called 'plastic rice', which is more expensive to produce...
My fellow BVs, it's high time we started using our common sense... This issue is more of common sense than the so called scholarly mumbo jumbo
Una heads too correct jare.
DeleteWhy are nigerians so wicked why would they smuggle contaminated rice to feed innocent citizens. Like we do not have enough problems of our own, medical services sucks in this country.
ReplyDeleteWith the kind of stuff we Co some in Nigeria, it is only by the grace of God that we all don't end up sick in the Hospital everyday.
DeleteOnly by the grace of God. Imagine the bags of similar contaminated rice that has been sold and eaten.
Stop struggling with HIM
Christmas with my Second Cousins plus Headache, lessons learnt and the Naughty Chair
Leaf dart tin, eats thier jobs dare ah protektin....
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. Who to believe now??
ReplyDeleteNo scientist in d whole of nigeria to test these so called plastic rice, everybody is depending on govt agencies. Duh!
ReplyDeleteNafdac lied
ReplyDeleteHow did the custom people know the rice the seized some days ago is a plastic rice? They just want Nigerians to see them as up and doing.
ReplyDeleteI believe that rice is in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteWhatever
ReplyDelete“Based on the above laboratory result, the product is not plastic but rice contaminated with micro-organisms above permissible limit, hence the seized rice consignment is unsatisfactory and therefore unwholesome for human consumption. The consignment upon handover by the Nigeria Customs Service shall be destroyed,” Really??
ReplyDeleteNow they owe us answers to these questions:
1. Who contaminated the rice with MO?
2.For what reason?
3.Who are those behind the sales of the product?
4. How can an individual spot the contaminated product?
5. Where are the products coming from, within Nigeria or outside Nigeria?
These are the type of information that an ordinary Nigerian can benefit from, otherwise the research is inconclusive and non- beneficial.
Make una dey lie there una hear....
ReplyDeleteThey had go out there and fish the useless rice out! See cover up talk.
Which way Nigeria? Why are you people confusing us na
ReplyDeleteWhose report do we believe?
ReplyDelete#Flygirl
Anyway God will still help us. I don enter beans na. abi we get plastic beans
ReplyDeleteNigeria gov are wicked they will lie just to save face. What of the video we watched that an igbo man and his wife were burning the rice the a pan was it taken in USA. Instead of them to tell people to be careful they are saying no plastic rice useless leaders they will all die miserably
ReplyDeleteSo microbes now turn rice to plastic. I wonder how these people got to power. Mschew
ReplyDeleteThey should stop telling us lies
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