By Ismail Auwal
Few days after the Department of State Services (DSS) invited Mohammed Tahir, invited the president of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN), the union is set to suspend the blockade of food items from the north to the south.
TheCable reported that “The partial suspension was made by the dealers of perishable goods,”
Yahaya Bello, the Kogi state governor, is currently holding a meeting with the leadership of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) in Abuja.
Awwalu Aliyu, an official of the union, who spoke to TheCable in Kano on Tuesday said the decision not to supply food to the south was not to starve southerners but to protest the attacks on their members.
Aliyu alleged that some members in the south were killed, maimed and lost properties especially during the #EndSARS protest and the recent Shasha market crisis in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
He had said the union preferred that farm produce go to waste rather than tolerate “continued attacks” on its members in the south.
The situation has led to an increase in prices of food in the southern part of the country.
