Kano cattle dealers lament low patronage – Punch Newspapers

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Enyioha Opara and Umar Muhammed with agency report

Some cattle dealers in Kano State, who had stocked goats,rams and cows for sale ahead of the Sallah festival, are complaining of low patronage.

Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Kano lamented that their hopes for brisk business had been dashed as a result of the poor state of the nation’s economy.

Malam Ali Sani, a dealer at Yan-awaki market in the Kumbotso Local Government Area, said the dealers had been forced by the situation to  sell some of the rams on credit due to the slow pace of business.

Another livestock seller, Haladu Yusuf in Gama cattle market of the Nasarawa Local Government Area in Kano, lamented the situation and attributed the development to non-payment of salaries by many employers, resulting in low purchasing power of potential customers.

He said although similar development was…



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