The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Tuesday warned fertilizer producers and sale distributors that 10 years imprisonment awaits anyone caught adulterating the product.
Deputy Director of Farm Inputs Support Services Department in the Ministry, Ishaku Ardo Buba gave the warning while speaking with journalists at a zonal sensitization training workshop for fertilizer quality control inspectors and stakeholders in Abuja.
He said the ministry is implementing aggressive policies toward detecting and tracking violators in line with the 2019 National Fertilizer Quality Control Act, stressing that those without sales permits or certificates of registration should desist from operation in Nigeria or face the wrath of the law.
“Our warning is that time has passed where you can do whatever you want but now there is a law in place and the law is stringent, so irrespective of who you are, as far as you’re involved in any of the cases of adulteration, diversion, the law will take its cause on you and it’s very severe.
“Once you don’t have our sales permit, or certificate of registration don’t operate in Nigeria and we can dictate in the event of somebody will want to fake it. There is no way you can fake it, we have asked all the security agencies working with our inspector to seal any premises that do not display a copy of his certificate of registration or sales permit,” he said.
Buba said the web-based platform has been upgraded to address gray areas for a seamless application and registration process.
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