Posted on: 07:07 Sun, 17 Jan 2016



President Muhammudu Buhari has directed the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, to distribute seized relief items in various customs warehouses to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in the country, Customs spokesman, Wale Adeniyi, has stated.

“They include food items like rice, vegetable oil, spaghetti and essential items like soap, used clothing materials, mosquito nets, beddings and others,’’ he said.

“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.

He said Customs Comptroller General has set up a national committee that would coordinate and manage the movement and the transfer of seized relief items to give effect to the President’s directive.

The customs boss also included some NGOs, civil society organisations and the media to give the committee a measure of transparency and credibility.