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 President Buhari to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to stop providing foreign exchange for importation of food items did not mean a restriction on the importation of food items.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu stated that any importer of food items that wished to source their forex from non-government financial institutions were free to do so.
The Presidential spokesman was reacting to a report in Financial Times, which was a letter to the Editor with the titled, “Muhammadu Buhari sparks dismay over policy shift on food imports”, published on August 15, 2019.
