JUST IN: Blockade On Food Supply To South Lifted

Northern traders have lifted the embargo placed on movement food stuff to states in southern part of the country.

The traders agreed to partial suspension of the blockade to allow supply of perishable food items to the southern region, especially the south west, The Cable reports.

Recall that the blockade started on February 25 after trucks moving food stuff and cattles to the south from north were stopped at Jebba a border town between Niger and Kwara state.

“The partial suspension was made by the dealers of perishable goods,”  TheCable quoted a source to have said.

Both sides have been affected by the development, as the southerners begin to groan about the hike in food prices, the traders also bemoan the loss they have incurred financially as some of the perishable goods go to waste.

Yahaya Bello, the Kogi state governor, is currently holding a meeting with the leadership of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) in Abuja.

Awwalu Aliyu, an official of the union, had on Tuesday said the decision not to supply food to the south was not to starve southerners but to protest attacks on their members.

Aliyu alleged that some members in the south were killed, maimed and lost properties especially during the #EndSARS protest and the recent Shasha market crisis in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

He had said the union preferred that farm produce go to waste rather than tolerate “continued attacks” on its members in the south.

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