In the past few days, there has been some low level of uproar among citizens over the news and events that food were being blocked from getting to the south from the north, majorly by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN), and this isn’t a good thing to happen at the moment considering the state of the nation on peace and unity.
According to report in the media, the President of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) Mohammed Tahir was yesterday detained by the Department of State Services over the blockade of supply of foodstuffs and cattle from the North to the South.
AUFCDN General-Secretary Ahmed Alaramma told reporters at a news conference in Abuja that the DSS had in the morning invited the union leadership to a meeting, which ended 3.30 pm yesterday, but the DSS spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya said “They attended a meeting at the headquarters as part of the service’s interventions to resolve issues. The meeting which started about 1:30 pm and ended at 3.30 pm today held in an atmosphere of peace,”
According to the AUFCDN General-Secretary, the reason for this blockage of food to the south is that before a truckload of cows from Adamawa gets to its destination in any Southern state, the driver would have spent about N250,000 on army operatives, and also killing of their members. He said: “The situation report we are receiving in Zaria, Kaduna State, Jabba in Niger state, Tala in Taraba State, and Lokoja in Kogi State is that they(drivers) are being intimidated by the Nigerian army. They also intimidate our task force
