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August 19, 2019
The Federal Government explained that it has neither banned nor restricted importation of food items into the country.
It also explained that the recent directive by PresidentBuhari to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to stop providing foreign exchangefor importation of food items did not mean a restriction on the importation offood items.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Presidenton Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu stated that any importer of food items thatwished to source their forex from non-government financial institutions werefree to do so.
The Presidential spokesman was reacting to a report inFinancial Times, which was a letter to the Editor with the titled, “MuhammaduBuhari sparks dismay over policy shift on food imports”, published on August15, 2019.