Weekly Trust
Saturday, September 29, 2012
'How we lost N30m worth of oranges'
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Orange sellers in Sokoto arecollnting their losses, even as they blame fall in patronage, the raining season and delay in the arrival of truck loads of the commodity from Benue and Ondo states for their woes_ bltiya A. Muham~. Sahli
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their woes ~ If ),Olllook.lh(r(' now you
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,luring las"!in!: bill now tho;:re .s a dec illc In the market for orange as people are $;I)'lI1g there is no monc)':' d\,\lrmall o(lhc Orangii' De.len Auocll\uon o(Sokol(>, Hello lIado, rold \\fakIr 1""11. Ilado's IlOSlliun wa~ ~urroh'"lrnled by Alh:iJI nellu ():U\dJ, anuilicr umdJ! 01 Ih.:a"s"... !.III.-.n. 11.: ...!Ill - wl! al-.o UI)('rlenc~·.1 a Inl "r IfI~~C'< h('Lau,,(' "I III~ Ire.IUl·nt rainfall here and ro the areas where Ihey bring Ihe ol1lnges from . Beside'S, IWO tbys ago a big vehicle bringing In nranges ror many o(us. developed f;mit on lilt' way And insleOlJ of arrivrog here III one day, Iheywcre 1)11 Ihe ro,;u.l (or four d.),\ II)' Ihe lime Ihey arnved here, we haJ 10SI 111IIhe omnKe~'cll'OyS
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Too WOrried thai he could nOI speak wa<; a 70-year·old orange seiter In 1h{' In"rkel who reportedly lost a million naira's worth o f or.mqe.., However. one 01his colleagues volunteered. c1f\c! chippecl in. -This man lost about one million naira worth of o ranges, now he does not even have N 100, Thi<; is certainly a very challenging time for us NS,()(ItI.l.lld NII.OOf) Or .mb'" lra,lC' IS ''''IIIII.lhle h"lllt ... re are p'(lb'enl~-
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ORANGE ..1I.f' uy when th_ bu.tnlJlI boom. they .ve between 20 end 40 .uorted vehlde. of Ofeng.. comlno Into the m.fket
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