THE Federal Operations Unit (FOU) of the Nigeria Customs
Service, (NCS), yesterday uncovered several bags of the much dreaded plastic
rice.
Disclosing this in Lagos, Customs Area Comptroller
(CAC), Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’, Ikeja; Comptroller Haruna Mamudu said
the unit seized no fewer than 102 bags of the plastic rice at a warehouse in
Ikeja.
The bags of plastic which has been packaged for sale during the yuletide
were to be evacuated before operatives of the swooped on the managers of the
warehouse.
Coincidentally, it was the same man who denied the presence of
plastic rice when he was confronted by reporters precisely one week ago at the
FOU office in Ikeja. According to Mamudu, the imported rice, which was branded
as ‘best tomato’, had no manufacture, expiry date and NAFDAC registration
number.
He said: “As I speak with you, we have successfully evacuated 102 bags
of 25kg branded tomato Rice without any date of manufacture not to talk of
expiration date and NAFDAC Batch Number.
“We are still investigating to
ascertain how many of this rice has been circulated and how best to retrieve
the in order to protect and safeguard the health of Nigerians and bring those
behind it to book.”
Source:Vanguard
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