Why We Monitor Activities Of Rice, Grains Bulk Buyers In Niger – Gov Bago

By Kasim Isa Muhammad
Kanempress News
5th March 2024

Niger State Government has
clarified that it only raised alarm and took measures to check the activities of middlemen and people buying up rice and other grains.

State Governor Umar Bago said the activities of these middlemen and people are pushing up prices in the state and elsewhere, depriving local mills and food factories of needed raw materials.

Bago, who stated this while making clarification over misconstrued reports on his stance on mass purchase of food items from the state to other states and outside Nigeria in Abuja on Monday.

The Governor said he only stopped bulk purchases of food from local markets to neighbouring countries.