Has Plastic/Rubber Rice Really Entered The Nigerian Market? Watch This Video Of A Lady Who Believed She Cooked It

Two days ago, the Director General of National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof Lucy Ogbadu, debunked rumours of plastic rice flooding the Nigerian markets, describing the video which was circulating on social media as falsehood.

She disclosed this at the November edition of Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) which was held in Abuja.

The NABDA boss said there was no reason why that could be possible.

Prof. Ogbadu said:

“We do not believe in the story of plastic rice production. One, producing rice from plastic would be very, very expensive and no business man would venture into it. Two, I have gone around and around and did not see any plastic rice in the markets or anywhere else. All the rice I saw did not look plastic.”

“Some people, I believe, are only trying to scare away consumers of rice from certain rice brands”, she said.

But fresh indications suggest other wise, as a new video released in the last 24 hows show that there just might indeed be an ‘unhealthy’ kind of rice in the market that is plastic/rubbery in nature.

In recent video posted by Ebals Blog, a lady who appears to have mistakenly bought the said plastic /rubbery rice broke it down.

According to her It faeels rubbery like rubber band, doesn’t smell, doesn’t break, grains just become longer(like basmati but didn’t look like basmati on purchase) and expands.

Watch below:

So what do you think? Is that really plastic rice in the video above?