The Federal Government, on Monday, began the sale of subsidised rice to non-civil servants through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS).
The initiative, aimed at mitigating the price of the staple food, requires interested buyers to present their National Identification Number (NIN) slips or valid means of identification to partake.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, had said public servants would be the first beneficiaries of the sale due to an accurate data system that will ensure proper documentation of the sale to ordinary citizens.
THE WHISTLER gathered that non-civil servants can now take advantage of the discounted rice.
Earlier, Kyari explained that the 50kg bags of rice, priced at a flat rate of N40,000, are part of the effort to provide subsidised milled rice to help alleviate the ongoing food crisis in Nigeria.
He said, “This food intervention can be said to be timely considering the times and challenges we are in as citizens of this great nation.
“As one of the numerous efforts of the present administration to cushion the effect of the high cost of food commodities, kindly join me in applauding the immense efforts of the present administration such as the release of 42,000MT of Assorted Food Commodities (AFC) to vulnerable and the 30,000MT of milled rice which is being flagged-off for sales to Nigerians today September 5, 2024.
“To qualify for the one person one bag, you must have a National Identification Number, of course, you have phone numbers and those in public service are all registered under the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) platform”.