Market women in Rivers State are begging the state government to save them and their families from hunger and poverty by giving them grants to support their businesses.
They made this plea following their inability to restock their shops with goods because of the incessant increase in the cost of food items.
Traders in Eliozu market in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the State, expressed their displeasure, noting that the hardship in the country was hitting hard on them.
Describing the Nigeria economy as extremely harsh, they noted that the hardship in Nigeria could led to more havoc in homes, society and nations at large.
One of them, Mrs. Nnenna Osuobri said, “my sister eh no easy, we are suffering in this Nigeria I swear, suffer dey, very serious one.
“Who dey sell dey cry, who dey buy too dey cry. Everything is very expensive, maggi ooo, salt, pepper, not to talk of garri, oil, rice, beans.
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“Ordinary pure water sef is costly. Who use meat cook, no go buy fish. You buy meat N1,000 or this ice fish stock fish N500, food don done. Poor people are really suffering in this Nigeria I tell you. Just tell me one thing that is cheap that anybody can buy. Even N50 groundnut to use drink garri no dey again. It’s terrible.”
Osuobri suggested that, “the solution is government, Rivers State government should give us money, we need finance, grant to support our business.
“Load wey I collect since, I never fit meet up to pay, please government should help us.”
A butcher in same Eliozu market, Mr. Ibrahim Hassan revealed that, “everything is the problem in Nigeria. Road is bad to bring things, even cow, na em make it’s expensive. Road no good, sometimes you go run round oooo, just to bring onion, tomatoes, pepper to the South and East.
“Again too, petrol expensive, transportation eh dey high, so we add all this money. Onion five naira that time, now na N200.”
When asked who should be blamed for the hardship in the country, Hassan said “na government na em make people dey suffer.”
