"Some Powerful People Challenged Me For Resolving The Issue Which Caused Food Blockade From The North To The South" - Governor Yahaya Bello Says

 

Speaking in an interview with The Nation, Governor Bello said some powerful figures challenged him for resolving the issue.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has alleged that a high and mighty person challenged him for resolving the issue that led to the blockade of food supply from the North to the south.

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) had embarked on a strike, stopping food supplies from the North to the South. The strike resulted in scarcity and an increase in the prices of food items in the south.

The Northern food suppliers agreed to suspend the strike on Wednesday, March 3, after a meeting with the Kogi state governor.

Speaking in an interview with The Nation, Governor Bello stated a few powerful figures challenged him for resolving the problem.

“It will hobby you that when the decision and taking the file to Mr. President the previous day, two uninformed — considered one of them is my colleague and the second is an uninformed individual however regrettably inside the seat of electricity or close to the seat of power — challenged me that why did I remedy the difficulty,” Bello stated.

"Why did I resolve the matter? That I have to have allowed it in order that whatever belongs to the youths of the south, allow it suffer, not minding the ensuing effects at the u . S .. This is what we had been dealing with in Nigeria. I am simply telling you considered one of all over one hundred million things I recognize which you even in Abuja don’t recognise.

And this is what is conserving us lower back. So, if we're having such folks as leaders in this united states, then we are doomed. The buyers had protested and written from the lowest authority to the best, no motion changed into taken. And the subsequent movement became to move on strike from #EndSARS time up till this second. Before #EndSARS, there were loads of extortions on each aspects even as transporting those goods by using regulation enforcement marketers or touts.

No response became coming from the villa. The law enforcement businesses were not responding; the traditional rulers have been not pronouncing whatever and even we governors have been no longer pronouncing whatever. Even at our forum, neighborhood governments, spiritual our bodies, countrywide meeting and anywhere, they became to appeared to expose less concern.

These men had downed equipment. Excess meals inside the north have been getting rotten however none within the south. The scenario were given to the volume that a cow that must fee N150,000 to N200,000 become going for as a good deal as N700,000, N800,000 and N1 million within six days. Tomatoes of almost N20 rose to N100 and above.

Somebody just fast drew my attention to it that Nigeria become heading closer to catastrophe and I should do some thing. While I invited them and we have been interacting, I received a call from the presidential villa that I should quick pass into the matter. As the youngest governor, as a gateway nation, they stated I ought to do the whole thing to move into the matter. Then I moved into the matter and, God willing, the strike became called off.”he stated