March 18, 2024
The Sokoto State Task Force committee on hoarding and smuggling of food items and essential commodities has vowed to clamp down on selfish marketers and warehouses and shops hoarding food items, warning those involved in the unpatriotic acts to fear God or face the laws of the land.
It insisted that it would tackle the bad ones who are the bane of causing misery to the people in the quest for higher profits by sabotaging the state and national economy for selfish gains.
He said: “Those in the unlawful and unislamic act should fear God or be made to fear the law of the land. Such clandestine practices are against religious doctrines of Islam, and indeed all religions.”
Its chairman, Dalhatu Sidi Mamman, made stern remarks at a briefing in Sokoto Monday that the committee would not shield nor make a sacred cow of anyone with such an unpatriotic act of sabotaging the economy and causing untold hardship for people in the state.
Mamman disclosed that the committee with the collaboration of relevant security agencies had intercepted and released 20 trucks to rightful owners upon proper investigation even as he said: “We still escort them to the destination.”
However, the chairman stressed that all laws prohibited such acts because they subject people to untold hardships and suffering” Is a crime against humanity and aimed at obtaining higher profits or rather “cut-throat gains”
He noted that it was a form of corruption which a fight against it would drive good governance, economic growth and development of the state and nation.
“Corruption is a manifestation of under development and poverty which invests by entrepreneurs unappealing”, he pointed out while commending Governor Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto for promptly constituting the Task Force to address the inhuman activities of selfish and unpatriotic marketers causing hardship to fellow citizens for personal economic gains.
“Doing so is an indication of his responsiveness and determination to address the plight of the citizenry.
“Is also a demonstration of the State Government’s concern over their welfare and its readiness to address the unhappy development”, he stressed while assuring a cogent blueprint of action and modalities would be drawn for the success of the committee constituted in February.
