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Foodstuff, others out of our reach – Zamfara residents lament inflation

Zamfara State residents have cried out over the constant increment in prices of foodstuffs and other essential commodities on a daily basis.

Investigations carried out by DAILY POST revealed that a plate of locally produced rice being sold at N1300 cost N650 a week ago.

According to a rice dealer, Mallam Ibrahim Mainasara, the rice farmers have been facing security challenges from the bandits terrorizing rural areas of the state, affecting farming in the rural areas.

“Farming used to be the pride of Zamfara State indigenes but that was then as farmers no longer face their farming activities due to banditry,” he lamented.

Mallam Mainasara further stated that those farmers who have the courage to continue their farming activities sell at exorbitant prices.

He explained that apart frоm the bandit attacks, the transportation crisis due to fuel scarcity has seriously escalated the prices of locally produced foodstuffs.

Another trader, Alhaji Umar Gusau who spoke with this medium said that other essential commodities have also been affected.

“It becomes unimaginable that a country that is endowed with many agricultural potentials could not feed its populace properly.

“There is no responsible government that can treat the issue of agriculture with a mere wave of the hand, that is Nigeria for you,” he said.

He said that many households now could not afford to buy meat as the prices of meat have become unaffordable for the common masses, saying that the same thing applied to breakfast which he said many households have stopped taking rich food.

“How many loaves of bread can somebody buy to make breakfast for a family of ten or more when a small loaf of bread is being sold at the cost of N300?” he asked.

Further investigation revealed that those who sell locally produced foodstuffs like egusi, ogbono, crayfish, snails etc brought to the state from the eastern part of the country were also lamenting that the business has been moving with the lowest ebbs as people were not ready to buy due to the deep inflation.

According to one of such traders, Mr Ejike Maduka, “I have not gone to the east to buy the food items since the beginning of this year because there were no buyers, talk less of getting money to buy more of the items”

“Even if one decides to change business, it is the same thing as the escalation of prices affects all the foodstuffs and other essential commodities.”

DAILY POST visited a section where fowls were being sold at Tudun Wada market in Gusau, the state capital, but met some of the sellers sleeping as there were no serious market activities.

When asked, some of the traders told this medium that they hardly sell two chickens in a day, pointing out that the consumers have been complaining of the high cost of living in the state coupled with money that was not in circulation.

The chicken dealers confirmed to this medium that the inflation crisis was traced to the banditry activities that have been ravaging the state for a decade now, saying that the traders in the urban areas highly depend on the rural farmers for supply of the locally produced foodstuffs.

DAILY POST reports that some of the non-indigines have been shifting their bases due to banditry activities to other states of the federation due to the high cost of living ravaging the entire Zamfara State.

According to one Mr Obiora Nnamani, the deep economic hardship being faced by the people would definitely force non-indigines to shift from the state, coupled with the political crisis in the state.

“Nobody knows what would happen during the 2022 general elections in the state as the situation is turning out to be politics of bitterness, I have concluded arrangements to move down with his family to the east before the elections,” he said.

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Inflation is ravaging the entire nation.

Nigeria suffers from deliberate manmade hyper inflation

You don't have food sufficiency yet you close your land borders to people who have more than enough and need market to sell cheaply

You prioritised Cow herders against agrarian farmers just because of ethnic affiliation as if only cow beef and milk can sustain Nigerians

You increase Tax, VAT, Custom duty, all within five years and expect prices of goods not to go up

You Tax Sugar, still tax softdrink , cooking gas and wheat yet wonder why people can't eat well

You removed Petroleum subsidy, increased electricity Tariffs, increase custom duty on Generators and Solar power equipment when Nigeria barely have 3000 megawatt of electricity for 200 million people


Buhari is a sadist soldier that believes in tough love, and think hardship would improve Nigerian economy through capitalism

Unfortunately Nigeria can only survive through socialism and welfare system.. with subsidised education, agriculture, petroleum and forex




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Somebody should seriously warn nigerian girls not to near crop tops if they don't have flat tummy abeg, I'm tired of seeing winnie the pooh

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In Femi Adeshina's voice, somethings will not hug the news.
Hunger is bad, it has reached Zamfara

Zamfara dey complain, wetn we dey Lagos go do?

Fake News!

This something go reach everybody hand.

lol dey shuld pay Tax to dere Tax collector aka Bandits so dat dey can av access to food

We go all die for naija

but but the north is feeding Nigeria naaa

Famine is something to be prepared about

E ti ri nken ken. Sai baba for third term!

Pussy go dey very sheep for that place, funjosh take note. Omo Chelsea jati jati

Zamfara is gone!

Their leaders r wicked!

Ah Ah...Rice again? Rice that we used to build pyramid in Abuja and the price doubled

Unlesss of course, Emefiele filled the bags with saw dust for the president to come and commission

Question is...where is the rice

All these are southern media propaganda against the North. We still have food enough to feed all of una for years

Buhari is doing really well.

we have not started in this country.
our silence will consume us all. we easily normalize suffering and rubbish in Nigeria.

-all of a sudden these companies pump air into packets of snacks for our kids and still sell for double the price.
-price of things no longer increase by 50 naira. it is plus 100 now.
-we no longer have up to 10 original items in the market anymore. all fake and trash for double the price.
-kidney disease will be everywhere in 15 years time. fake beer everywhere. even coca-cola tastes like chalk these days.
-have you noticed how soap stops to produce foam when it reaches half?
-do we still have STANDARDS ORGANISATION OF NIGERIA?
-bulk of petrol came into this country and it was poison to our cars. who cleared it? who inspected it? where was Nigerian customs and all the agencies that allowed passage for such rubbish fuel?
-fuel scarcity for one whole month. and it has become a normal thing.
-we grew up knowing Nigerian fuel to be reddish. it is now like olive oil colour.
-back then you make tea and the whole house will smell it but now it is total crap.
-Nigerians work 365 days a year (8am-6pm daily) and we deserve the best but we have been reduced to the point where you buy a fairly used car and go for thanksgiving for something you should never accept in the first place.

what the hell is going on?

North are going through a lot,but their elites doesn't even care,next election na still same food they kept and preserved somewhere,they'll use to lure them to vote...no fear of God

It's almost two months now, we saw the rice pyramids. Abeg did it disappear like APC promise of one refinery one year?

While I just finished downloading a huge spaghetti and sauce

Bought fuel for 230 per liter my gen always on

Whether APC or no APC I must ball hard

Thunder fire buhari and his urchins

C-H-A-N-G-E

gozmok1:
During Jonathan, death as a result of insecurity was seen as govt and "hatred for d North", Arewa called out the insecurity so loudly. In Buhari regime, death is now "the will of God" and Arewa prays to God to come down and fight insecurity. The hypocrisy stinks.

Them never see anything. Just a tip of the iceberg. Sai Buhari till 2056

It's as a result of the failure of Buhari and the blockheads handling the economy.

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This is getting out of hand.

Buhari is working

I just laugh whenever I see Buhari supporters, if they know the level of damage Buhari has done to Nigeria, they will use cutlass and chase him anytime they see him...