Dakola: Dakola customs presented, Thursday to the press, spoiled rice amounting to 1,040 tonnes that agents at this border post with Ghana seized in May 2024.
According to the Director General of Customs Adama Ilboudo, the seized rice was loaded on 20 trailer trucks of 52 tonnes each and came from Pakistan.
Mr. Ilboudo indicated that the merchandise is estimated at 322 million 233 thousand 840 FCFA.
According to Adama Ilboudo, the destruction of the seized goods will be the responsibility of the unscrupulous trader.
According to him, the latter will be prosecuted for several offenses which the prosecutor will decline.
Adama Ilboudo said that customs agents, after stopping the trucks, doubted the quality of the rice through the condition of the packaging.
To remove this doubt, samples were taken by the national health security agency.
‘The result of the analysis of the samples showed that the rice is unfit for consumption,’ said Director General Ilboudo.
The complaints and claims manager of the Consume
rs League of Burkina, Hermann Dambre, congratulated the customs agents for this seizure.
He invited them to redouble their efforts to block anything that is unfit for consumption.
Regarding traders, Mr. Dambré stressed that they endanger the health of their fellow citizens through the export of this type of product.
‘When you know that the product is not good and you bring it to sell to your Burkinabè brothers, there is something wrong,’ he lamented.
The representative of the Consumers’ League also called on the justice system to take action in order to dissuade traders who would like to take this path of illegal profit.
Source: Burkina Information Agency