FG’s Palliative Rice Unfit For Human Consumption – Akwa-Ibom Govt
June 12, 2020
7:33 am
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has discarded 510 of the 1800 bags of custom bonded rice given to the State as palliative by the Federal government.
The Secretary to the State Government and Chairman of COVID-19 Committee, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem who disclosed this during the 13th edition of Covid-19 update on Thursday, said the State government took the
decision after the laboratory test results showed that the 510 bags were unfit for human consumption.
His words, “As we reported a few weeks ago, we took delivery of 1800 bags of impounded Nigerian Customs warehouse bonded rice donated to
