Middlemen hoard, sell food items at exorbitant prices, Senate laments - Punch Newspapers

THE Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, said on Saturday that findings by his panel had shown that desperate merchants were behind the current high cost and scarcity of food items in the Nigerians markets.

Adamu lamented that merchants of food items in their hundreds usually targetted the harvest period to besiege both mechanised and small holders farms and buy off their produce for the purpose of hoarding them. The lawmaker said their activities were frustrating the efforts of both the farmers and the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , to make food available to the people.

Everyone is slowly giving up on the cooking gas issue that seems to be rising like a leavened dough. Godismysource

Middlemen who are relatives to the senators..hoard, sell food items at exorbitant prices, Senate is happy!

It’s the height of foolishness & stupidity for anyone to come to such conclusions, insecurity is responsible.

There were middle men seven years ago and food was far cheaper. The issue is more of the farmers/herders clash. No harm in admitting it. Thank you.

The level at which we just like they create hardship for oursef need to be study.... just extort extort poor struggling masses, make life hard for them then call it God blessing. Mheeeew

Ori yin ti daru. Wat about d farmers dt couldnt go to their farms bcs of Fulani killer herdsmen. So that one is not a cause?

Did you ask the senator if what he was saying made sense to him? Why not blame the middlemen for the farmers herders clashes?

It will not be well with all of u( senators) which kind middle men?. Bandit are killings farmers that suppose go farm u said it’s middle men hoarding foods

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