The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has sought the support of members of the Nasarawa State Traders and Marketers Association towards mitigating the rising cost of food items.
The governor stated this when he recently met with the traders and marketers association at the Government House, Lafia, due to the prevailing economic hardships being experienced by the people of the state.
Sule decried the situation where traders purchase and hoard food items solely for profit maximisation, and urged the members of the traders and marketing association to sensitise their members on the ills of hoarding food items, especially at a time when people find it difficult to feed.
Sule said, “It is high time we come together to help ourselves. It is inconsiderate for someone to hoard food items while waiting for the prices to soar before selling them.
“It is even possible that at the time, such a person wants to sell his food items, he may lack buyers because of the scarcity of money. It is not good for someone who bought a 50kg bag of sugar at N32,000 to now turn around and sell it at N72,000.
“Stop hoarding food items. Hunger is ravaging the people. If we continue to hoard food items and people continue to die, we would answer before God.”
Also speaking, the President, Nasarawa State Traders and Marketers Association, Musa Turaki-Gamji, said members of the union had started touring the zones across the state to sensitise traders on supporting the government’s plans to assuage the plight of the people.
Turaki-Gamji pointed out that the association had taken it upon itself to intervene by assisting the government in reducing the hardships presently being faced by the people of the state.
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