Wednesday 29 July 2015

Nigeria Customs Seals Up Warehouses Of Defaulting Rice Importers

Nigeria Customs Service has commenced the sealing up of
warehouses of four (4) defaulting Rice Importers.The action is intended to give a bite to several letters of warming and ultimatum to the beneficiaries of rice import quota policy who imported in excess of their approved quotas.

The affected importers are:

 OLAM
 STALLION/ POPULAR FOODS/MASCO AGRO
 EBONY AGRO AND
 CONTI AGRO( MILAN)

The defaulting rice importers have refused to pay their total debt profile of N23,603,479,402.44 (Twenty Three Billion, Six Hundred and Three Million, Four Hundred and Seventy Nine Thousand, Four Hundred and Two Naira, Forty Four kobo. In addition to the sealing up of their warehouses, the