*BOA helps with equity
A Nigerian Custom Service (NCS) Controller, Trade/Facilitation department Mr. Anthony Ayalogu has taken a swipe on government officials saying they are responsible for the rejection of our agricultural produce into other countries by allowing them get out of the country's shore without proper procedure. He said this at the just concluded Agricon conference held at the conference centre at Abuja.
Mr. Ayalogu pointed that he would lay the blame of agricultural produce being turned down from outside the country on certification officials who permitted their exit without proper standard evaluation of meeting standards of the exporting countries.
He queried
the government officials who allowed the passage of bad produce to other
country's saying that ‘’ rejected items always pass through our government
agencies. If our government agencies have not compromised, there is no way bad
produce will pass through the shore of Nigeria as they are the ones to be
actually blamed’’
Responding
to question, the Managing Director (MD) Bank of Agriculture (BOA) Alhaji Alwan
Ali Hassan said the bank is readily available to assist companies, individuals
and cooperatives who have met the bank equity with other conditions while he
encouraged farmers to better organised themselves into a cooperative for easy
access of financial support.
Hassan said
the bank had in the past helped many individuals and registered companies who
have met with its equity requirement and evidence of tax payment, adding that solo
business owners must possess proper collateral and the Bank Verification Number
(BVN).
Meanwhile,
the Managing Director, Nigeria Incentive Based Risk Sharing System For Agricultural
Lending ( NIRSAL) Baba Aliyu Abdulhameed has said that the bank did not give
permission to anyone to operate on its behalf with people who want access to loan,
saying loan seekers should rather approach any of the offices.
Abdulhammed said this through his Special
Assistant (SA) Dr. Gazali Mohammed at the same conference when responding to
question saying NIRSAL has not employed anybody or agency to transact business
on its behalf, but advised people to ignore such people and come directly to
the office to avoid being defrauded through unnecessary fees demand.
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