If you don't want to eat local rice, that's your problem — Sen Adamu tells Nigerians

Senator Adamu Abdullahi 

Senate Committee Chairman on Agriculture, Adamu Abdullahi, has said that any Nigerian that is not willing to eat local rice in the face of continued closure of the country’s borders with neighbouring nations, had the problem to deal with.

Recall that President Buhari had on August 20, 2019 ordered a partial closure of Nigeria’s land border.



He hinged his decision on the massive smuggling activities, especially rice brought into the country.

But Abdullahi, who commended President Muhammadu Buhari for not bowing to pressure to open Nigeria’s land borders with neighbouring countries, said those clamouring for its reopening were smugglers and all those profiting from the bastardisation of the economy.




He said, “Our neighbouring countries have become gateways and transit routes for all manners of commodities ranging from automobiles to foodstuffs such as rice, corns, sorghum, palm oil, tomatoes, eggs and dairy products.

“Republic of Benin became one of the world’s top importers of rice because of its Nigerian market. Almost all of the rice it imported from Thailand, Indonesia etc found its way to Nigeria through the Seme Border.


‘”We therefore stand with this government in support of this policy for border closure.

“We have a duty to protect our own, if you don’t want to eat Nigerian grown rice, that’s your own problem.”