Three Years Imprisonment For Rice Smugglers- CG,Ali

Controller General of Customs, Hamid Ali said that anyone who smuggled rice into Nigeria will be sentenced to three years imprisonment.

 

The smuggling of rice is affecting the economy.

 

The Nigerian Customs Service has said that three years jail term will be served to anybody nabbed for smuggling a bag of rice into the country.

The Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hamid Ali (rtd) made this statement known while addressing border communities of Nigeria/Niger at Maigatari local government in Jigawa State on Thursday.

Col. Ali said that the act of smuggling of contrabands food items in to the country is playing a key role in receding the county’s economy and Nigeria must work hard to control the problems.

He said: “Federal Government is making efforts to improve Agriculture especially rice farming but the foreign rice been imported to the country massively through illegal borders is sabotaging government policies.

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“Most of these rice are being imported by you on motorcycle through illegal borders,” Hamid Ali stated.

“No compromise, anybody found culpable will be prosecuted accordingly and the minimum punishment for smuggling a single bag of rice is three years jail term,” he stated.

He therefore,urged border communities to support government efforts in fighting illicit importation of contrabands food items into the country which is dangerous to citizen’s health.