RESIDENTS of Kaduna and environs, who rushed to the famous Kasuwan Talata (Tuesday market) at Kawo to restock, were shocked to the marrow as no single bag of garri was available in the market to buy. Similarly, there were no chicken feeds in the market for poultry farmers to buy because the suppliers could not move out of Kaduna to place orders due to the curfew.

A resident of Kawo New Extension, Sani Ikwere, who went to the Talata weekly market to buy foodstuffs, as government relaxed the curfew on Tuesday, told newsmen that the Igbo and Yoruba traders were nowhere to be found, even as the few bags of garri with some few traders were mopped up by government officials to feed the Internally Displaced Persons across the state.

Ikwere said most households resorted to garri because the curfew did not allow their women take other cassava to market for grinding. “We are adjusting our feeding pattern; it is now a meal or two meals in a day. It is no longer as usual. We pray things will normalise,” he said.

Also, bank customers were disappointed as they could not access their bank accounts. Many banks failed to open while the few that opened operated for four hours between 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. due to the ongoing 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 a.m. curfew within the state capital.

Most shops along the ever busy Ahmadu Bello Way between Katsina road and Leventis roundabout were also closed.

Meanwhile, over 2,000 people have been displaced in Kaduna, the Executive Secretary of State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Dogo Makama, has said. He said his agency is collaborating with donor agencies to provide succour to the internally displaced persons.

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Onlytruth:
You are ignorant. lol
Most Nigerians are ignorant of their own country.
No be person go bring the garri from Umunede to Kaduna, or from Ayalagu to Kaduna?
The traders sustain the farmers and feed the people. The farmer won't eat his own produce.

Ileke-IdI:


TBH, that was not meant to be offensive. Trust me, I would have been a lot harsher lol



So the farmer eats another farmer's products, but he wouldn't eat his own. Hmm.
I don't believe Nigerian government provide food subsidization to their farmers or even provide much governmental help. Correct me on this if I'm wrong.
I believe most Nigerian LOCAL farmers just sell what they have "left over". That's why we import most of what we eat.

Onlytruth:

They sell what they can afford to sell, but some of them are big farmers who produce say 100 and keep only 1 and sell 99.
The point is that they are not traders. The traders come to buy the produce from them and take them to towns and cities where they sell them. These are the people that are missing now in KD. So, hunger don enter town.

Ileke-IdI:


hmmm.

But if the Igbo/Yoruba traders (who came to buy), then why has food scarcity hit KID since KD owns the farms/ food product.
It would make sense to say that food scarcity hit Southern states.

Confusion is a . . . .

bashr8: who told you the north feeds the south ? the only thing that comes from the north are cows, every region feeds itself and import the rest which requires igbo traders to distribute from the south to the north or from one state to the other so when u distrupt the activities of igbo traders you will all go hungry. go to onithsa on wednesdays especially and see convoy of trilers and wagons loading food stuffs and other items from onithsa to southwest and north, ijebu women also come to buy food stuffs and other materials to sell in the south west

Onlytruth:

Most non-Igbo Nigerians think that Igboland imports food.lol
Growing up in Igboland, I only ate local foods, yams from Otu ocha and Anam, Cassava from everywhere local, and rice from Adani and Abakaliki. Apart from nama (Zebu cattle) and maybe onions, I can't recall what we don't grow locally. I am talking about Anambra o. Now try other SE states like Imo, Abia and Ebonyi. Across the Niger in Anioma, food plenty there -plantain, garri. Ol' boy, I won't be surprised if the North actually depends on the South for food.

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

PointB:

Very idiotic question!

PointB:

Very idiotic question!

Otutu1: To all those agitating for breakup and war, this is just a tip of the iceberg. Let's see wat happens when this continues for a week to months

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

Onlytruth:
You are ignorant. lol
Most Nigerians are ignorant of their own country.
No be person go bring the garri from Umunede to Kaduna, or from Ayalagu to Kaduna?
The traders sustain the farmers and feed the people. The farmer won't eat his own produce.

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?

T9ksy:

So why the kwashokor during the civil war?