Plateau traders threaten to shun goods from Lagos, Aba, Onisha

Marketers of foreign English wears, jeweleries and cosmetics from Northern States on Thursday agreed to boycott goods from Lagos, Aba in Abia State and Onisha in Anambra State over what they described as inflation of the prices of old products by the traders in those cities.
The Plateau State chapter of the traders told journalists at the New Market, Jos, that their decision was reached after due consultation with their counterparts across the 19 Northern States and Abuja.
The Union Chairman of the affected traders in Jos, Abubakar Isa Muhammad, said the decision was taken by the union in FCT, Gombe, Niger, Kano, Plateau and Kaduna States, adding: “The decision from these six states is usually binding on all the Northern States.
“Suppliers from those three states sell to us old stock at inflated prices and some of the goods have been in the store for over five years.”
Muhammad said they will fall back to Kano for the supply of some of the available products pending when the Southern suppliers will stop the inflation.