Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has announced prohibition on the sale and distribution of food items and farm produce in large quantities from the
State to other States in the country.
Bago made the announcement during a press briefing at the government house in Minna, the Niger state capital, on Friday.
According to him, the sale of food items in bulk to other States is 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.
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His words: 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.”
With the fall in the value of the Naira, the cost of food items have skyrocketed across the country, thereby, causing hardship
