Benue rejects FG's rice cites expiry
Chairman of the
State Emergency Committee on COVID-19 and Deputy Governor Benson Abounu said
the rice deliveries have expired and are no longer fit for human consumption.
The Deputy Governor
further disclosed that even though the bags of rice had been taken to the three
senatorial zones, the government has decided to return them to the Ministry of
Humanitarian Affairs.
Abounu said;
“Government cannot
afford to risk the health of its citizen by given them expired rice to
eat."
He also revealed
that the state government spent about N2 million to purchase the bags of rice.
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