Nigeria: Agro-Allied Operators Tackle FG Over N175 Billion Unpaid Export Grants

Key operators in the nation's agricultural sector have been lamenting over the federal government's failure to fully implement the policies of Export Expansion Grant (EEG) as well as Negotiable Duty Credit Certification (NDCC) which were fashioned out by the Jonathan Administration to principally boost the nation's Rice value chain.

In a Letter to outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan, copied to the Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy/Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the operators congregating under the auspices of Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), regretted that the Government reneged on the agreement to implement the EEG policy framework for 2014 as announced by the Finance Ministry.

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