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The food marketers exporting foods to the south have legitimate concerns to embark on a strike. However, it's crazy to prolong it for long which is likely to create a humanitarian catastrophe. I have lost a friend who was a driver, transporting onions during the recent massacre of Hausa people in Ibadan, and I support every step taken by the union to protect their members from jungle justice mostly perpetrated by anarchists who have nothing to lose even if the country is plunged into a serious crisis. The government must step in, allay their fears and punish the hoodlums who often attack Hausa food markets whenever anti-Hausa sentiments reach an apogee.

Almost 98% of the meat consumed in the south come from Arewa, and the northerners account for more than 70% net exporters of onions, maize, rice millets and other critical cereal crops that are vital for food industries to survive. Attacking the drivers for transporting foods to the south , killing cattle rearers and rustle their cows are the issues that need to be resolved. This standoff is a stark reminders that the North despite its depleting agricultural outputs still has leverages and those who think the region is a parasite needs to think twice.

I think the South is failing to understand the issue for what it is.

The strike by the amalgamated food union is to safeguard members against what happened in Oyo state and parts of the south east.

What I expect is for the market union down south to organise themselves and reassure their brothers up north that they will be protected.

The fact that nobody is calling for a reprisal means that the North is open for an amicable resolution of the matter, at the end of the day we all need one another.

The idea of branding every Northerner as a terrorist or bandit won't do any good in this inatance. After all before the activities of some unscrupulous fulani criminals we have had kidnappings, armed robbery, cultism etc in the south.

Sadly, they have allowed politicians to cash in on the issue at hand.

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Kingdemu:
The food marketers exporting foods to the south have legitimate concerns to embark on a strike. However, it's crazy to prolong it for long which is likely to create a humanitarian catastrophe. I have lost a friend who was a driver, transporting onions during the recent massacre of Hausa people in Ibadan, and I support every step taken by the union to protect their members from jungle justice mostly perpetrated by anarchists who have nothing to lose even if the country is plunged into a serious crisis. The government must step in, allay their fears and punish the hoodlums who often attack Hausa food markets whenever anti-Hausa sentiments reach an apogee.

Almost 98% of the meat consumed in the south come from Arewa, and the northerners account for more than 70% net exporters of onions, maize, rice millets and other critical cereal crops that are vital for food industries to survive. Attacking the drivers for transporting foods to the south , killing cattle rearers and rustle their cows are the issues that need to be resolved. This standoff is a stark reminders that the North despite its depleting agricultural outputs still has leverages and those who think the region is a parasite needs to think twice.

I think the South is failing to understand the issue for what it is.

The strike by the amalgamated food union is to safeguard members against what happened in Oyo state and parts of the south east.

What I expect is for the market union down south to organise themselves and reassure their brothers up north that they will be protected.

The fact that nobody is calling for a reprisal means that the North is open for an amicable resolution of the matter, at the end of the day we all need one another.

The idea of branding every Northerner as a terrorist or bandit won't do any good in this inatance. After all before the activities of some unscrupulous fulani criminals we have had kidnappings, armed robbery, cultism etc in the south.

Sadly, they have allowed politicians to cash in on the issue at hand.

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The south esp West did not complain and we want the status quo to remain the same.

When hunger strike us wella, we will make use of our brain and return to mechanized farming, our land is fertile, we will return to agriculture by force and we will be self independent

thunder fire any South west politicians or leaders that begs the north.


BTW, the north is doing us a favor so its a welcome development.
We didn't complain let the status quo remain the same

You are crying more than the bereaved. Go and eat your food. we don't need it.Which country will buy food from killers. Enjoy your food and your insecurity while it lasts.

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Kingdemu:
I think the South is failing to understand the issue for what it is.

The strike by the amalgamated food union is to safeguard members against what happened in Oyo state and parts of the south east.

What I expect is for the market union down south to organise themselves and reassure their brothers up north that they will be protected.

The fact that nobody is calling for a reprisal means that the North is open for an amicable resolution of the matter, at the end of the day we all need one another.

The idea of branding every Northerner as a terrorist or bandit won't do any good in this inatance. After all before the activities of some unscrupulous fulani criminals we have had kidnappings, armed robbery, cultism etc in the south.

Sadly, they have allowed politicians to cash in on the issue at hand.

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When has the mieytallah apologize over the killings of farmers on their farms?

I will give you 100k instant transfer if you can show me where northern people union organize themselves to apologize over herdsmen killing the southerners on their farms.

Or 100k where Buhari himself apologize over the killings of southerners on their own farm.

Omoluabi1stborn:


The south esp West did not complain and we want the status quo to remain the same.

When hunger strike us wella, we will make use of our brain and return to mechanized farming, our land is fertile, we will return to agriculture by force and we will be self independent

thunder fire any South west politicians or leaders that begs the north.


BTW, the north is doing us a favor so its a welcome development.
We didn't complain let the status quo remain the same

You, online warriors are here claiming James Bond while real people on the streets are crying and feeling the brunt. Drop your ego and let the standoff end

duro4chang:
You are crying more than the bereaved. Go and eat your food. we don't need it.Which country will buy food from killers. Enjoy your food and your insecurity while it lasts.

Kingdemu:
You, online warriors are here claiming James Bond while real people on the streets are crying and feeling the brunt. Drop your ego and let the standoff nd

I'm not broke like you bro, because I didn't see cow meat I bought chicken

You can check the date. I am yet to cut it.
There will always be an alternative, it can only affect us for a while.
We will be alright soon or later

Cc legendhero, seunsmg, thatfairguy1, iamgrey5.

Come carry your Bloda

Point of correction, if you don’t know history, stop jumping on matters you knew little about.
Around 2009 or 2010 when the matter of Boko Haram started coming up, during those time, Yoruba market men and women were the ones that goes up the North to buy all these foodstuffs and market it here themselves for several decades. Though some Hausa merchants too were part of the biz of traveling to buy. But before Boko Haram went crazy, some Yoruba market men and women who went to buy goods up North were massacred. Several of them at different times. When the killing got so much, they abandoned the buying and the Hausa people took over the process completely whereby they are now the one to control and determine the price. After they took over, the killings on the road stopped before Boko Haram results to different forms of bombing.

How can a witch cry yesterday and the child dies today?
Can you see such act? That was how these northern people became dominant in price controlling and they even brought down their own people to sell as retailers because they don’t trust the Yoruba sellers in accounting to them.

So it’s a matter of my market, my money, my land and gradually they took over several big markets at the expense of Yoruba Seller’s space.
They bought wheelbarrow for even the ones they brought so that those one can move about in streets and that makes a common Yoruba sellers to sell at his nose.

Can you fucking justify those killings that made Yoruba marketers to resist from buying from the north by themselves?

As at now, they even use soldiers to harass other sellers at mile 12 market , just because your tribe are special?
I wish the Yoruba people can unite and even turn away any truck released to come sell here.

E ti ya were!!!!!

on

Kingdemu:
The food marketers exporting foods to the south have legitimate concerns to embark on a strike. However, it's crazy to prolong it for long which is likely to create a humanitarian catastrophe. I have lost a friend who was a driver, transporting onions during the recent massacre of Hausa people in Ibadan, and I support every step taken by the union to protect their members from jungle justice mostly perpetrated by anarchists who have nothing to lose even if the country is plunged into a serious crisis. The government must step in, allay their fears and punish the hoodlums who often attack Hausa food markets whenever anti-Hausa sentiments reach an apogee.

Almost 98% of the meat consumed in the south come from Arewa, and the northerners account for more than 70% net exporters of onions, maize, rice millets and other critical cereal crops that are vital for food industries to survive. Attacking the drivers for transporting foods to the south , killing cattle rearers and rustle their cows are the issues that need to be resolved. This standoff is a stark reminders that the North despite its depleting agricultural outputs still has leverages and those who think the region is a parasite needs to think twice.

I think the South is failing to understand the issue for what it is.

The strike by the amalgamated food union is to safeguard members against what happened in Oyo state and parts of the south east.

What I expect is for the market union down south to organise themselves and reassure their brothers up north that they will be protected.

The fact that nobody is calling for a reprisal means that the North is open for an amicable resolution of the matter, at the end of the day we all need one another.

The idea of branding every Northerner as a terrorist or bandit won't do any good in this inatance. After all before the activities of some unscrupulous fulani criminals we have had kidnappings, armed robbery, cultism etc in the south.

Sadly, they have allowed politicians to cash in on the issue at hand.

Omoluabi1stborn:
I'm not broke like you bro, because I didn't see cow meat I bought chicken

You can check the time. I am yet to cut it.
There will always be an alternative

Cc legendhero, seunsmg, thatfairguy1, iamgrey5.

Come carry your Bloda

You see how selfish you are? Just because you have money to purchase a more expensive alternative you care less about the majority poor who can't afford any? Shame on you. Call more of your gang members

Kingdemu:
You see how selfish you are? Just because you have money to purchase a more expensive alternative you care less about the majority poor who can't afford any? Shame on you. Call more of your gang members

Oga, once hunger wire us, we enter bush to farm.

We have the fertile land, and most of this things will grow.
Lol, you were expecting us to beg you?

Away with your foods abeq.
We have alternative to all your farm produce.

Let Hunger catch us finish now
ABI na by force to buy

Kingdemu:
You, online warriors are here claiming James Bond while real people on the streets are crying and feeling the brunt. Drop your ego and let the standoff end

The problems you are facing in the north is far more than the nonsense you are doing here online. Your brothers in the bush are there planning evils against you everyday. Go and worry your brain about that. But then you created it then go and face it. Shameless people.

Kingdemu:
You, online warriors are here claiming James Bond while real people on the streets are crying and feeling the brunt. Drop your ego and let the standoff end

please go to hell with your tomatoes and onions.

A decision has been made to starve a section of the country. To be forewarned is to forearmed; it's a great hope that governors in each region of the South will call meetings to preserve the lives of people that elected them. Although for decades, the Federal government supports agricultural development of the North through countless irrigation system, free and subsidized fertilizer and making sure there is available market for the produce by banning importation of these produce. The billions of dollars being used is mainly from the Southern oil, ports and customs' duties.

Most of the states in the South are self sufficient, they can grow whatever they need except places like Lagos and PH. The major staples in the South is from cassava, yam, plantain, rice and all sorts of cowpie which people are readily growing. The SW people eat more of Amala and Ewedu, Eba, rice, etc with vegetables everywhere. The SS and SE likewise the same except in place of Amala and Ewedu, they have Akpu and Ogbono. There are lots of food crops, fruits, chickens, eggs, fishes that readily available to eat.
However, because of the population of the people in the cities and our lack of good leadership that should have envisaged the plan of the North before now, the south would have to endure for some time to fill up the gaps. This is a blessing in disguise and God used this to reveal the deadly plans of the North.

To avoid eating poison in future, Northern foodstuffs and perishable should be banned in the South. Bad chemicals like sniper is being used to preserve their beans and the cows are a kind of curse to our spirituality... people are being killed for the meat you eat; humans are mating with what you eat! The other things the North brings can easily be planted if not lazy. Get a small place to grow your pepper, onion and tomatoes. For the wise, this is opportunity to make money. There are lots of countries in W/Africa that are looking for where to sell their stuff like beans which are being infested with weevils, also cows.

Open grazing should be thoroughly prohibited in the South. The government should do everything to block foodstuffs coming from the North. The southern governments should support mechanised farming in crops and animal husbandry. Benin Republic people's tomatoes are rotten away, they should be brought in; so also cows and chickens until we can produce what we consume fully. The Northerners should not be allowed to head ports and customs commands in the South again. Northerners readily bring cows mainly from Niger & Chad but Southerners can't do same through Benin borders. We should care less about where they are boasting to sell their produce to. All I know is that the whole world is eyeing Southern markets; We're over 100 million in population with lots of purchasing power than anywhere in Africa. The North wants to put an end to their father Christmas' market.

A wise people of the South should prevent mass killings through poison of food by avoiding northern cows and food, even if they decide to start bringing them. Most expecially, the leadership of the South should call for reform without wasting time again.

wetdspace:
Point of correction, if you don’t know history, stop jumping on matters you knew little about.
Around 2009 or 2010 when the matter of Boko Haram started coming up, during those time, Yoruba market men and women were the ones that goes up the North to buy all these foodstuffs and market it here themselves for several decades. Though some Hausa merchants too were part of the biz of traveling to buy. But before Boko Haram went crazy, some Yoruba market men and women who went to buy goods up North were massacred. Several of them at different times. When the killing got so much, they abandoned the buying and the Hausa people took over the process completely whereby they are now the one to control and determine the price. After they took over, the killings on the road stopped before Boko Haram results to different forms of bombing.

How can a witch cry yesterday and the child dies today?
Can you see such act? That was how these northern people became dominant in price controlling and they even brought down their own people to sell as retailers because they don’t trust the Yoruba sellers in accounting to them.

So it’s a matter of my market, my money, my land and gradually they took over several big markets at the expense of Yoruba Seller’s space.
They bought wheelbarrow for even the ones they brought so that those one can move about in streets and that makes a common Yoruba sellers to sell at his nose.

Can you fucking justify those killings that made Yoruba marketers to resist from buying from the north by themselves?

As at now, they even use soldiers to harass other sellers at mile 12 market , just because your tribe are special?
I wish the Yoruba people can unite and even turn away any truck released to come sell here.

E ti ya were!!!!!

on

this is exactly what happened to our members at the bodija market, they killed them in maduguri during reigning of boko haram in 2009, now nobody wants to go to north to buy market, that's reason why hausas take over the business from westerners,

Oh bro you remembered..., God bless you. Let us share them the history and how they paid Fulani heardsmen to keep destroying our farms so that we can keep consuming their fertilizer infested crops.

It’s only little of their products that can be exported! Enough of the poison we’ve been consuming! We too have lands and it must thrive!

khalling2008:
this is exactly what happened to our members at the bodija market, they killed them in maduguri during reigning of boko haram in 2009, now nobody wants to go to north to buy market, that's reason why hausas take over the business from westerners,

So the farmers that are being killed or their farms been destroyed have no legitimate concern abi what's your epistle all about?

Northerners should keep their foods. We southerners are not that last to find a better alternatives

Kingdemu:
You, online warriors are here claiming James Bond while real people on the streets are crying and feeling the brunt. Drop your ego and let the standoff end

Why did you end your so called blockage? So soon now.