Nigeria’s President, Muhammudu Buhari has directed the Nigeria Customs Service to start distributing relief items in various customs warehouses to designated Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps.Customs spokesperson, Wale Adeniyi disclosed  in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday, that the Comptroller General has set up a national committee that would coordinate and manage the movement and the transfer of seized relief items to give effect to the President’s directive.

The relief items currently in government warehouses for distribution to the IDPs, he said, included goods that had been forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. “It is important to stress that these items are only those that have been condemned properly in the competent court of law and have been forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. They include food items like rice, vegetable oil, spaghetti and essential items like soap, used clothing materials, mosquito nets, beddings and others,” he said

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