The Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, has placed a ban on the sale and distribution of food items and farm produce in bulk from the state to other states in Nigeria.
The governor who announced the ban during a press briefing, stressed that the sale of food items in bulk has resulted in scarcity and food starvation within the state.
He warned that anyone who flouts the order will have their trucks confiscated and the food items will be shared to the people in the state.
His words “Trucks who come to pack or buy foodstuffs from our villagers in bulk should be halted for now. We have stopped mass purchases from our local markets, and all our local governments, from now henceforth.
Anybody found doing that, we have given some security agencies go ahead to confiscate those trucks and share the food with the people.”
Watch the video here;
"Trucks who come to pack or buy foodstuffs from our villagers in bulk should be halted for now…," Niger State Governor pic.twitter.com/9Swc9oMjRk
— Freedom Times (@freedomtimesng) February 11, 2024
