MULTI-BILLION NAIRA RICE DEAL EX-PRESIDENT SIGNED BEFORE HANDOVER EXPOSED
Recent information on how former President Goodluck Jonathan signed several billion Naira rice deals on import quota just some hours before he left office has just surfaced, Premium Times stated. Former Nigeria President,President Goodluck Jonathan. A memo from state house dated May 27, 2015 revealed that the then Vice President, Namadi Sambo presented another memo which was signed and approved by the former President Jonathan a day earlier. In the memo, Sambo requested a subsidy approval for selected rice importers in order to bring in a total of 782,000 metric tonnes under what was tagged ‘2015 Rice Quota Allocations’.Ex-president endorsed the deal on his last day in office but subsequently, PMB administration rejected and cancelled it before its enactment. It had been rumoured that the smugglers and the beneficiaries of rice subsidy have joined forces to overturn the nation rice development policy and evade ...