Few days to the celebration of Eid-el-Adha in Nigeria, ram sellers across the country are groaning over low patronage as the downturn of the economy bites harder.
Eid el-Adha, also called the “Festival of Sacrifice”, is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year, and considered the holier of the two.
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markets survey revealed that the livestock were available with few buyers seen due to what many attributed to paucity of fund.
For instance, major sellers of fat and lean rams in Kasuwar-Shanu, a popular livestock market in Maiduguri, and tens of other emergency ram markets that sprang up across the city, were wailing over absence of salary earners in the markets.
Modu Kukawa, who offloaded many rams at an emergency market situated along Baga road, attributed his lack of sales and that of his colleagues to the absence of private and public workers who were yet to be paid.