Border closure: Ogoja rice producer set to crash price

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Santuscom Agro-Hub Investment Nigeria Limited, producers of Ogoja Rice, Chief Paul Santus, on Tuesday promised that his organisation is working to crash the price of 50 kg bag of it’s #OgojaRice brand to N14, 000 ahead the Christmas and New Year celebrations despite closure of land borders by the federal government.

Santus made the disclosure while speaking on the effort made by his company to take up the challenge by closure of land borders, saying his company has scaled up production of Ogoja Rice brand locally in O’akwa-Okpoma, Yala local government area of Cross River state.

According to him, Nigerians should not panic ahead of the festive period because arrangement has been put in place to meet their demands as against the backdrop of skyrocketing price of the commodity in markets across the country, especially after the closure of borders by the government.

Prices of the commodity has risen to as much as N22,000 following the recent closure of land borders.

He said: “We in Santuscom Agro-hub Investment Nigeria Limited, producers of the popular Ogoja Rice brand is concerned with the skyrocketing price of rice after the closure of land borders by the federal government.

“We want Nigerians to understand the action by the government and notwithstanding we want to assure Nigerians that as a company we will do everything possible before the Christmas and

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