NAQS: UK test confirms Nigerian cowpea standard

There is high tendency that majority of the Nigeria agricultural produce facing rejection in United Kingdom (UK) is being politically motivated by other competitors who conspired with the foreign officials to create unnecessary bottle neck especially to our cowpea that has been confirmed standard through a laboratory test conducted there.

This revelation is coming on the heels of incessant turning back of Nigerian agricultural produce abroad especially in UK where premium are placed on organically and naturally grown crops with reference to a particular woman whose case of cowpea is presently proving a point of deliberate action on the part of the United Kingdom official in connival with other foreign countries who deliberately wanted to make market entrance difficult for personal benefit under the guise of sub standard products.

Presently, a case study of a woman whose imported cowpea to UK was being turned back due to residue chemical is already unveiling the conspiracy scam that is behind many of the Nigerian agricultural produce always being returned abroad in the name of sub-standard as a source from the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has confirmed the standard of the produce through a laboratory test conducted in UK at a very low cost compared to ours.

At a public function on cottage industry stakeholder in Nigeria organized by the Federal Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (FMARD) at Ibadan, Mr. A.O Ogunfunmilayo stressed that UK officials’ deliberate action is being sponsored by other completing countries who felt threatened that Nigeria agricultural produce might hijacked the European market if they folded their hands doing nothing just as he added that a laboratory in UK has confirmed the woman’s cowpea as not having chemical residual.

The NAQS official said that the passionate effort of ensuring the Nigeria cowpea being accepted in UK has necessitated the taking of the four sample varieties of cowpea for both local and international testing with the UK laboratory confirming the Nigerian cowpea free of any form of chemical residual thereby declaring it standard for global market.

A source also confirmed that most of the time these conspirators also ensured that Nigerian Agricultural produce are being abandoned for several hours so as to loss certain potency that will not make them meet the qualified standard by the time they are ready to be tested adding this action has denied many of the country’s agricultural produce from entering UK.

Another source said it is a deliberate act done on the bases of lowering the price of the produce for their selfish economic gains adding most of those produce have got the certification of the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service before leaving the shore of the country. 

The Federation Agricultural Commodities Association of Nigeria (FACAN) domiciled at the Federal Ministry of Trade and Commerce in its spirited effort to ensure standard production of agricultural produce had severally trained and created awareness in the need for Global Agricultural Practices for reason of reducing the incessant turning back of our export in UK.