Nasarawa Govt Reaches Deal With Traders to Purchase Their Wares

Nasarawa State Government has reached a deal with traders and marketing associations in the state to buy off their wares.

The purchased wares would be sold to members of the public at discounted prices.

Governor Sule Abdullahi announced the program to newsmen at the government house, Lafia, some of the purchased items would be distributed to the vulnerable for free.

Already, he said the state government had got more than 2,100 bags of rice from some marketing associations in the state for the scheme.

Sule decried the situation where traders purchase and hoard food items solely for profit maximization, and urged the members of the traders and marketing association to sensitize their members on the ills of hoarding food items, especially at a time when people find it difficult to feed.

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Sule said, “It is high time we come together to help ourselves. It is inconsiderate for someone to hoard food items while waiting for the prices to soar before selling them.

It is even possible that at the time, such a person wants to sell his food items, he may lack buyers because of the scarcity of money.

It is not good for someone who bought a 50kg bag of sugar at N32,000 to now turn around and sell it at N72,000.

Stop hoarding food items. Hunger is ravaging the people. If we continue to hoard food items and people continue to die, we will answer before God.

Also speaking, the President, of Nasarawa State Traders and Marketers Association, Musa Turaki-Gamji, said members of the union had started touring the zones across the state to sensitize traders on supporting the government’s plans to assuage the plight of the people.