The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali, has approved the release of 247 truckloads of relief items worth N3.250 billion and a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N2bn from its warehouses.
This was revealed in a statement on Tuesday by the Service’s spokesman, Deputy Comptroller Joseph Attah.
He said the approval was in compliance with the presidential directive to provide relief items from seizures by Customs operatives.
The Service, however, did not disclose the locations and places where the items will be distributed to.
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Ali said the coronavirus pandemic necessitated various and continuous actions by government at different levels to prevent and or stop the spread of the virus in Nigeria.
According to the statement, the release of relief items is in reaction to pains associated with the effects of the lockdown in some parts of the country and in response to some Nigerians on social media who had called on the Service to share edible items to the public.
The relief items include 158 trailer load of rice estimated at 46,000 metric tonnes, 30 trucks of vegetable oil with 36,495 units of 25 litre kegs, and 3,428 kegs of palm oil.
Others are 54 trucks containing 136,705 cartons of tomatoes paste, 2,951 cartons of spaghetti and 1,253 packets of noodles, 828 bales of wrappers (Ankara) and 2,300 rolls of lace fabric.
