The Federal Executive has introduced that best consumers with Nationwide Identity Numbers would receive advantages because it commenced the sale of 30, 000 metric tonnes of milled rice to Nigerians at a subsidised price of N40,000 consistent with 50kg bag.
President Bola Tinubu, represented via the Minister of Agriculture and Meals Safety, Abubakar Kyari, mentioned all the way through the flag-off rite on Thursday, that the rice intervention will probably be offered strictly on a “one person, one bag” foundation.
Kyari defined that the 50kg baggage of rice, priced at a flat price of ₦40,000, are a part of the Federal Executive’s attempt to handover subsidised milled rice to assistance alleviate the continuing meals situation in Nigeria.
“This meals intervention can also be mentioned to be well timed bearing in mind the days and demanding situations we’re in as electorate of this stunning population.
“As one of the numerous efforts of the present administration to cushion the effect of high cost of food commodities, kindly join me in applauding the immense efforts of the present administration such as the release of 42,000MT of Assorted Food Commodities (AFC) to vulnerable and the 30,000MT of milled rice which is being flagged-off for sales to Nigerians today September 5, 2024,” he mentioned.
On purchaser verification, Kyari defined {that a} multi-disciplinary executive activity pressure has been deployed to safeguard transparency, huge distribution and the total luck of the initiative.
He emphasized that the method was once designed to prohibit people from acquiring multiple 50kg bag of rice, noting that beneficiaries will probably be verified via identity forms such because the NIN and get in touch with numbers to prohibit fraudulent people from getting access to a couple of baggage on the expense of alternative electorate.
“In view of the above, I beg our pricey electorate to cooperate with the related businesses of presidency who will struggle to handover you to succeed in this stunning initiative of presidency.
“It is expected that with the injection of 30,000MT (1000 trucks of 30MT each of this important staple into Nigeria’s food balance sheet, it will not only crash the price of rice but also other closer food substitutes and alternatives,” he mentioned.
Talking at the procedure Nigerians must apply to buy the rice, the Director of Strategic Grains Accumulation, Ministry of Agriculture, Haruna Sule, defined that civil servants can get right of entry to the grains at designated issues of sale via the usage of their Built-in Payroll and Workforce Knowledge Machine main points.
“To qualify for the one person one bag, you must have a National Identification Number, of course, you have phone numbers and those in public service are all registered under the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) platform,” he mentioned.
“Once you have any of these three, at the point of sale, with the NIN logged into the system, a code number and a Treasury receipt will be generated, and with that, the buyer can get to the collection centre and pick up his bag. The receipt will indicate, the time and point of collection to eliminate stampede,” he added.
Sule defined that after the consumer supplies the code quantity, a treasury receipt will probably be issued as evidence of fee to the federal government, including that the consumer will later obtain a receipt indicating the gathering level and hour.
He additional clarified that the gathering level is sovereign from the gross sales level, including, “At the collection point, you present your code to our officials, and you will be handed a bag of rice.”
In July, the Minister of Knowledge, Idris Mohammed, introduced the sale of subsidised rice.
Following this, the Ministry of Particular Tasks and Inter-Governmental Affairs, via its Human Sources Control Branch, recommended civil servants to sign in for the acquisition of the meals merchandise.
Alternatively, the federal government after suspended the plan with out offering any cause of the verdict.