Yusuf Bello| The Leadership of Cattle and Foodstuff dealers association has agreed to resume supply food items from the northern part of the country to the south.
The agreement was reached on Wednesday following a meeting with the leadership of the trade union by Kogi State governor Yahaya in Abuja.
The meeting was also reportedly attended by former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode.
Abdullahi Tom, a youth leader of the cattle dealers who attended the meeting, informed reporters that the union has agreed to call off the blockade.
Northern traders had last week embarked on strike over the attack on some of their members during the #EndSARS protests and the recent Shasha market crisis in Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
They initially gave the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to weigh into the situation and look into their demands which included protection of its members, and payment of N475 billion compensation for lives of members and properties lost during the #EndSARS protest and the Shasa market crisis.
They also demanded the dismantling of all roadblocks on federal highways where their members are harassed and money extorted from them by security operatives.
Both sides have been affected by the strike as food prices soared in the South, while farmers in the North lamented of poor patronage.
Prices of food commodities in the south like pepper, tomatoes, beef, yam, garri, amongst others, went up astronomically while in the north prices plummeted as a bag of onion which sold at N35,000 before the strike, went down to N7000 during the blockade.
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