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It is pertinent to react to the publication in some national newspapers that the Ondo State Government has rejected the bags of rice supplied to it by the federal government. For the records, the story is untrue and sensational.

At no time did the governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, instructed that the rice, meant to assist the state to combat food insecurity, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, be rejected and returned to Abuja.

On receipt of the items, the Palliative Committee did a random physical inspection on the rice, and discovered that some appear unhealthy for consumption, at least on the face-value, while others look good.

The Committee indeed drew the attention of Mr. Governor to this and pleaded for proper guidance.

While awaiting the thoughts of Mr. Governor, the Committee met and decided to carry out a comprehensive inspection, to ascertain how many bags have been affected on of storage. We discovered that less than ten percent of the lot falls into this category, and subsequently separated the few bags.

It is therefore very embarrassing that newspapers will go to town that the State Government has rejected the Federal Government . The state is rather deeply appreciative of the Federal Government for standing by it in this trying time, and very optimistic that the will further cushion the effects of hunger on our people.

I want to urge journalists to be painstaking in their assignments, and always put their crave for scoop in check.

Alex Kalejaye
Spokesman
State Palliative Committee

27th April, 2020

I know they will eat it like that

Even if sand and stones are manually added to the spoiled rice, they will deny and eat it since they don't want to annoy him in the centre.

It is so unfortunate that some people have decided to play dirty politics with the good gesture of the president. It is only normal that some few bags would be bad as a result of storage over a long period of time. Insinuating that Buhari deliberately send bad rice to the south west is evil and senseless.

The same rice was given to all the 36 states and FCT without any issues. Even Oyo State that rejected 1800 bags only showed us one bad bag. It’s good that Ondo State government has come out clearly to correct the misinformation in the public domain.

seunmsg:
It is so unfortunate that some people have decided to play dirty politics with the good gesture of the president. It is only normal that some few bags would be bad as a result of storage over a long period of time. Insinuating that Buhari deliberately send bad rice to the south west is evil and senseless.

The same rice was given to all the 36 states and FCT without any issues. Even Oyo State that rejected 1800 bags only showed us one bad bag. It’s good that Ondo State government has come out clearly to correct the misinformation in the public domain.

[quote author=Samchelsea post=88919557][/quote]

Get the fvck out of here.

Someone should remind Seyi Makinde that he is a pathetic fellow who play politics foolishly. The way he use media will one day hurt him badly.


He play politics so tey he Corona Virus, something that can be avoided!

Nice one, Arakurin!

I never knew Akeredolu was such a coward. I tot his igbo wife would ha e given him chest beating antics to boast at the FG. Kudos to Makinde.

So politicians can be blind to reality because of political consideration.Given the pictures of the alleged rice displayed recently, that the Ondo government is making this volte face simply means Nigeria is an irredeemably cursed nation.Aketi you've done a disgraceful thing.

Shady and unreliable

seunmsg:
It is so unfortunate that some people have decided to play dirty politics with the good gesture of the president.Insinuating that Buhari deliberately send bad rice to the south west is evil and senseless......

It’s good that Ondo State government has come out clearly to correct the misinformation in the public domain.

“We will separate the extremely bad ones from the rest and we will carry out the laboratory test on those ones that appear good, to ascertain how safe they are for consumption. But the extremely bad ones, we don’t even need to do test on them, we will return them.We will meet tomorrow (today) to decide when to return them, you know we can’t do it without the consent of Mr Governor.”

https://punchng.com/ondo-rejects-expired-fgs-palliative-rice/

This kind of rice will be well certified before its gets to Aso Rock but not with the downtrodden masses.This rubbish can never happen in civilised clime but only in a country like Nigeria wherein "Buharimaniacs are of the conviction that Nigeria is now legitimately the property of the president. The rest of us are here simply by his grace & generosity." https://opinion.timesng.com/2018/08/21/buharimaniacs-and-buharideens-by-femi-aribisala/

You can a clueless president but never allow senseless political sentiments to becloud your sense of sound judgement.

Racoon:

To be honest, I don’t get the point that some of you are trying to make. What exactly is the big deal in the discovery that some of the rice were bad? The rice in question were seized from smugglers and stored in custom warehouse over a long period of time. It is only normal that part of it would be bad as a result of poor storage.

If some bags are bad, the normal thing to do is to separate the bad ones and share the good ones. Making this a political issue is just senseless.

seunmsg:


To be honest, I don’t get the point that some of you are trying to make. What exactly is the big deal in the discovery that some of the rice were bad? The rice in question were seized from smugglers and stored in custom warehouse over a long period of time. It is only normal that part of it would be bad as a result of poor storage.

If some bags are bad, the normal thing to do is to separate the bad ones and share the good ones. Making this a political issue is just senseless.

shut up... you are only good at ing rapists

seunmsg:
It is so unfortunate that some people have decided to play dirty politics with the good gesture of the president. It is only normal that some few bags would be bad as a result of storage over a long period of time. Insinuating that Buhari deliberately send bad rice to the south west is evil and senseless.

The same rice was given to all the 36 states and FCT without any issues. Even Oyo State that rejected 1800 bags only showed us one bad bag. It’s good that Ondo State government has come out clearly to correct the misinformation in the public domain.

lol..bit rich coming from someone who profess hatred for anything opposition but can not take half when its meted on his useless party.
Afofungbemu egbon oshigun.

seunmsg:


To be honest, I don’t get the point that some of you are trying to make. What exactly is the big deal in the discovery that some of the rice were bad? The rice in question were seized from smugglers and stored in custom warehouse over a long period of time. It is only normal that part of it would be bad as a result of poor storage.

If some bags are bad, the normal thing to do is to separate the bad ones and share the good ones. Making this a political issue is just senseless.

story teller..
D.O Fagunwa without half the medullar.

seunmsg:
To be honest, I don’t get the point that some of you are trying to make. What exactly is the big deal in the discovery that some of the rice were bad? The rice in question were seized from smugglers and stored in custom warehouse over a long period of time. It is only normal that part of it would be bad as a result of poor storage.

If some bags are bad, the normal thing to do is to separate the bad ones and share the good ones. Making this a political issue is just senseless.

This is to tell you how insensitive, a government can be esp.in a time of global pandemic by distributing contaminated food items in the name of palliative.For goodness sake, is NAFDAC not there to certified it fit before consumption?

Do you lots ever think about the national and internation-al embarrassment this clueless regime have subjected Nigeria to? A government that appoints dead people into positions? Sai baba zombiesm and cluelessness is truly contagious.

I new the news was fake and would be debunked

Why would a sane government distribute spoilt rice to her citizens. In this trying time, some stupid governors still find it convinent to play politics.

May God help us in this country. Everything is politics and fake news.

People dey wake up, na now I wan go sleep


Meanwhile where then did the news emanate from?

SLAP44:
I know they will eat it like that

Hahahahaha hahahaha
Abeg no start

If the rice are expired and unsafe for human human consumption then they should be returned to the FG.
No responsible govt will feed its citizens poison as food.


us for genuine lands and houses within estates at various locations across Nigeria.

Jaeis:
People dey wake up, na now I wan go sleep

... na so naaa
Me too go you

I was expecting this

so you gonna share that rice like that

Suffering and smiling

Toothless Bulldog!

[quote author=Samchelsea post=88919557][/quote]Now they will comment because now it seems Buhari did good, but when we all thought the rice was bad ya'll buharist decided to play a deaf ear. Make Una continue to fool Una self if Una like

Ok

seunmsg:
It is so unfortunate that some people have decided to play dirty politics with the good gesture of the president. It is only normal that some few bags would be bad as a result of storage over a long period of time. Insinuating that Buhari deliberately send bad rice to the south west is evil and senseless.

The same rice was given to all the 36 states and FCT without any issues. Even Oyo State that rejected 1800 bags only showed us one bad bag. It’s good that Ondo State government has come out clearly to correct the misinformation in the public domain.

quote]Now they will comment because now it seems Buhari did good, but when we all thought the rice was bad ya'll buharist decided to play a deaf ear. Make Una continue to fool Una self if Una like