Federal Government Lists Those Responsible For High Cost Of Food (See Details)

The federal government on Thursday, February 9, blamed the rising prices of food items on officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police and Nigeria Customs Service at road blocks in the country, The Punch reports.

This takes after charges from ranchers, who have persistently whined about being blackmailed while moving homestead items to different areas, by officers who a few mounts barriers.

Boss Audu Ogbeh, the priest of horticulture and provincial improvement made this divulgence while talking before the National Assembly to safeguard the 2017 spending plan of his service.

As indicated by Ogbeh, ranchers the nation over had kicked against the move by the government to impact diminishment in the costs of nourishment things. This is subsequently of high coercion they involvement with barricades.

While tending to the Senate and House of Representatives Joint Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development at the National Assembly, Ogbeh brought up that one of the variables in charge of high cost of nourishment costs in the nation "is the day by day unendurable coercion by men of the Nigeria Police, their partner in the Army and Customs Service of truck drivers passing on homestead deliver from the hinterlands to urban focuses under the pretense of completing security checks."

He included: "These truck drivers, in light of crude grievances made to the service in late time, charged that at each checkpoint they are constantly compelled to part with sensible measure of cash by any gathering of the security organizations, which they stated, made agriculturists to have no choice than to calculate cost of coercion costs of sustenance things."

Ogbeh additionally stated, in view of the protestations by the truck drivers, the service composed the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and leaders of the other security organizations to discourage their agents from the demonstration "yet day by day reports accessible to the service still demonstrate that coercion proceeds unabated."

The clergyman additionally referred to high cost of Automobile General Oil, otherwise called diesel, which now offers for N300 per liter, as another element in charge of the soaring costs of sustenance things in the nation.

He expressed that diesel utilization was unavoidable since the trucks passing on homestead deliver were controlled by diesel.

In the interim, the government says it has received a few measures to lessen the cost of sustenance things.