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A Business District Street In Lagos, Nigeria.
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The south of Nigeria mostly depends on
the north for its food, but the farmers-herders crises is driving a wedge
through that business relationship, reports Pulse Nigeria.
According to the report, Alhaji Bello, a
peripatetic salesman who hawks beef around Surulere, Lagos, has been forced out
of business for well over a week now.
“Meat is so expensive now”, he told
Pulse, his blackened hands quickly shoved into his blood stained trousers. “In
fact, we don’t even see the meat to buy anymore.”
In the last couple of weeks, suspected
hoodlums and brigands in the northern region have been impounding food trucks
making their way down Nigeria’s south in what has been labelled a reprisal
move, as ethnic tension stemming from a recurring farmers-herders crisis engulfs
Africa’s most population.