The Nigeria Customs Service has been directed to take all the confiscated relief items in their various warehouses to designated officials for onward distribution to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country.
This order was handed to the customs by President Muhammadu Buhari.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Sunday in Abuja, customs’ spokesman, Wale Adeniyi, disclosed that to this effect, the Comptroller General, Hammed Ibrahim Ali, has set up a national committee to carry out this order.
Adeniyi emphasised that, “It is important to stress that these items are only those that have been condemned properly in the competent court of law and have been forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“They include food items like rice, vegetable oil, spaghetti and essential items like soap, used clothing materials, mosquito nets, beddings and others.”
According to the spokesman, members of the committee were drawn from Customs Service, Army, Air Force, Police, Immigration Service and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
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