Hardship: Niger governor bans bulk sale of food items, prohibits transportation of foodstuff to other states

• He stated that the sale of food items in bulk was behind the scarcity and food starvation within the state

Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State on Friday announced the prohibition of the sale and distribution of food items and farm produce in large quantities from the state to other Nigerian states.

Bago made the announcement during a press briefing at the government house in Minna, the Niger state capital.

He stated that the sale of food items in bulk was behind the scarcity and food starvation within the state.

He said security agencies had been directed to confiscate the truck of anyone that disregard the latest directive.

The governor said, “Trucks who come to pack or buy foodstuffs from our villagers in bulk should be halted for now. We have stopped mass purchases from our local markets, all our local governments, from now henceforth.

“Anybody found doing that, we have given some security agencies go ahead to confiscate those trucks and share the food to the people.”

This is coming amid the economic hardship Nigerians are facing.

With the fall in the value of the Naira, the cost of food items have skyrocketed across the country, thereby, causing hardship