Cattle Traders’ Strike Bites Harder As Ram Costs N1million In Lagos

 

The ongoing strike by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria has caused a rise in the prices of animals in Lagos and other Southwestern states.

Recall that the food and cattle dealers had on Thursday embarked on a strike, blocking all ‘borders’ between the North and South in protest for the killings and destruction of properties of Northerners during the Shasa market crisis in Oyo State.

The group demanded N4.7billion as compensation.

Barely five days into the strike, the action has now taken a toll on animal and food prices in the region, especially as many of the markets are nearly empty.

According to a file by means of the BBC, a ram become on Tuesday bought at N1millon and every other at N800,000 at Alaba Rago Market in Lagos State.

Chickens offered for N1,500 have now long past as much as N2,500 due to the strike which ended in a shortage of chickens.

Speaking with Muhammadun Dauran Kaji, an Alaba hen trader, stated turkey (Talo-Talo) is now bought for N30,000.

An onion vendor, Muhammadu Aminu, said the onion, which sold for N12,000, has now long gone up to 30,000 in step with baskets.

Tomatoes which was once bought at about N50 are actually sold at approximately N300.

DAILY NIGERIAN reports that at the warmth of the strike, foodstuff and farm animals sellers throughout the Northern had been diverting their items and all consumables to the neigbouring nations of Niger Republic and Cameroon.

The placing union were blockading change routes to the South by way of stopping food item-laden trucks from going south.

On Friday, truckloads of food items from the northern part of the united states of america had been stopped via the union from entering Kwara State and neighbouring states in the South West.

A video clip displaying the illegal stoppage of trucks wearing meals objects from the North to the South at a Jebba village in Niger State via some northern youths circulated on social media on Friday.

But the Defence Headquarters clarified that following the tension generated through the incident, joint troops comprising the navy and other security agencies had been deployed to clear the Jebba-Kaduna Road and they had when you consider that restored normalcy in the general place.