The current economic hardship has become more severe on a middle-aged woman, simply identified as Mrs Rebecca Gbaje, who lost her foodstuff to the criminal activities of commercial motor park wheelbarrow pushers.
The incident, according to City & Crime, occurred at Kwaita village market in Kwali Area Council of the FCT, Abuja when Mrs Gbaje was seen crying after the wheel barrow pusher disappeared with the food stuffs she bought.
City & Crime reporter, who was at the market, observed as some customers and traders gathered to sympathize with the woman, while some sympathisers walked round the market in search of the barrow pusher.
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The woman, while narrating to sympathisers who stood to console her amid tears, said she bought the food items that comprised of Mudus of rice, beans, maize and other ingredients and engaged the barrow pusher to help her take the items to the road side.
She said after the barrow pusher started moving to the road with the items, she stopped over to buy fish and asked him to wait for her.
‘’After buying the fish, I turned back but could not see the barrow pusher again,” she said.
Gbaje said she came from Fogbe village to Kwaita market to buy the food stuffs, amounting to N23, 300.
City & Crime reports that some traders contributted money for the woman, who refused to stop crying, to buy some other food stuffs.
(DAILY TRUST)
