NewsNigeriaFood and Essential Commodities Dealers Warns Against Hoarding

Food and essential commodities dealers in Bauchi state have been warned against hoarding and arbitrary price hikes.

DIG Sani Usman Muhammad ( Rtd), Chairman of Bauchi Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission gave the warning during a meeting with officials of major dealers of foodstuff in the state.

DIG Muhammad said the agency would not tolerate such actions as they could exacerbate hardships for the people.

He vowed to take action against those engaging in such practices and urged all merchants to collaborate in finding solutions to the high prices, especially for the benefit of the less privileged.

Responding, the chairman of the Bauchi Traders and Artisans Association, Abdullahi Mohammed, urged members to refrain from hoarding and inflating prices or else face the wrath of the law.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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