Men of the Federal Operations Unit (FoU), Zone A of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, said they have intercepted over 1,000 bags of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through Benin Republic.
Speaking during a press briefing in Lagos on Thursday, the acting Comptroller, FOU, Zone A, Hussein Ejibunu, said the rice came into Cotonou from India.
He said the foreign rice were tested by the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and confirmed to be poisonous and unsafe for consumption.
According to him, “After seizing the smuggled rice, we called NAFDAC to conduct laboratory analysis and it was gathered that the rice named SIMBA which consist of Led substances that is poisonous to the body was produced in India.”