Nigerian actor, Kunle Remi and actress, Yvonne Jegede have slammed the Lagos State government following viral videos showing Lagos State residents waiting in line to purchase rice bags from the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) for N10,000.
Recall that Customs said that the distribution of seized food goods will begin today, Friday, February 23.
In a statement to the press in Lagos, NCS Comptroller General Adewale Adeniyi said that customs personnel are not permitted to participate in the procedure.
In the video, the women lined up in an organized fashion, going one after the other to get the bag of rice they had paid for.
According to a statement published by the service’s National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, Adeniyi indicated that the rice will be packed in 25kg bags and priced at N10,000.
He stated that the target groups included craftsmen, teachers, nurses, religious organizations, and other Nigerians in its operational regions.
The goal, he stated, is to develop direct connections with members via these established procedures to ensure the initiative’s maximum efficacy.
Adeniyi urged against reselling food goods, noting that the NCS is committed to openness and responsibility throughout the process.
This has made many Nigerians upset, and many have expressed their dissatisfaction in blog comments. Kunle Remi, a movie star, jokingly challenged the federal government to include additional foodstuffs besides rice.
“Please they should add FG stew and small fish.. with ONE long seized plantain. Just one.”
“Sanwo Olu, Why feed us? Why can’t you just employ us? Get people out to start digging sewages, laying pipes underground, sweeping the streets and paying them as little as minimum wage, since the industrial sector is almost dead.Why would you even prefer to feed your citizens “Mama Put”, 🙆🏻♀️ taxpayers have been reduced to beggars.🤷🏼♀️.. When will someone just have mercy on us?When will someone just feel pity for this great country? 🇳🇬Someone in the presidency should please just sorry for us, please 🙏, we are not even doing shakara at this point. We all know that at this point NOBODY is happy with this situation…🇳🇬”
iamstepee wrote: Turned a whole country to beggars so you can can control them with povertykingsleyudehemeka wrote: These are people’s hard sweatyonisecretsng wrote: Please after it’s being sold for #10,000, what will the funds made from the sales of the rice be used for?seun_dreams wrote: You Dey sell contraband goods as charity, I’m lost😳littlebellaz_ wrote: They had time to rebrand and repackagetrendies_treats wrote: All the people buying the rice would go back to sell them for 70k.…. Na we dey do ourselveszomyfeet_zf wrote: I thought it was supposed to be giving for free. Nawaoooori_yomi01 wrote: This will definitely go a long way for many individuals n family, so please don’t criticize the little effort n offers… And again, Ramadan is around 👏 👏dlookmakeup wrote; Pples hard earned money sold to hungry Nigerians not even dashed?
The protest took place at the Freedom Park in Osogbo with protesters lamenting the daily rise in the price of foodstuff.
The protest organizer, Comrade Owolabi Hassan Oluwatobi lamented that Nigerians can no longer take the suffering in silence.
He said:
“Government must ameliorate the suffering of the people. They must do whatever they need to do to make sure that the people live in better conditions. Nigerians deserve the best. They promised us renewed hope but what they are giving us now is renewed hardship. We reject renewed hardship in our lives, and in our economy because Nigerians deserve the best. What Nigerians want is a peaceful atmosphere. We don’t want insecurity in our land again. We can’t travel from Osogbo to Ibadan without panicking. You will be thinking that they will kidnap you.
The abduction of monarchs is the order of the day in our country now. We urge the government to provide security for the life and property of the citizens. It is their responsibility, it is a constitutional responsibility.
Every government that fails to provide security for the lives of the citizens is no longer a government. What we are saying is simple, we are ready to face the government in this hardship and we are marathon runners.”
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