{"id":44830,"date":"2024-08-01T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kaduna-residents-express-concern-about-hunger-as-protests-keep-them-indoors\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:00:57","slug":"kaduna-residents-express-concern-about-hunger-as-protests-keep-them-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kaduna-residents-express-concern-about-hunger-as-protests-keep-them-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna residents express concern about hunger as protests keep them indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kaduna residents are complaining about an exacerbating hunger situation as they are confined to their homes following the commencement of protests across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them expressed their desire to go about their normal businesses for as long as the protest lasts, saying they feed their families from their daily businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Several residents who spoke to DAILY POST in Kaduna on Thursday said staying indoors complicates their challenges.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Kakuri, widow and food vendor Alice Agama, said she sells cooked food to feed her five children.<\/p>\n<p>Staying indoors today means her children have to stay hungry throughout the day, she lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI planned to cook early this morning and try to sell, but I came to understand that my customers are not coming out because of protests. It\u2019s from what I sell that I use the profits to feed my children,\u201d she wailed.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Mallam Shuabu, a wear hawker from Ungwar Television, said he cannot go out today for fear of the unknown as the protest commences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I sell, I buy drugs for my ailing wife and feed my two children. But, since there is protest, I cannot move anywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr John Alabama, a pharmacist whose shops are located in Kaduna Central Market, said his shops remain closed because of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he realises over N20,000 every day from sales of drugs and uses part of the money to buy foodstuffs and distribute them to the less privileged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have an orphanage home in Mararaban Kajuru, where I send foodstuff and drinks every day, and even use my drugs to treat the orphans when they are sick. But since the protest commenced today, I cannot open my shop. How to feed these orphans is an issue for me now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, youths between the ages of 12 and 35 are standing holding a banner with inscriptions such as \u201cTinubu, enough is enough,\u201d \u201cBring back our fuel subsidy,\u201d \u201cWe are hungry,\u201d \u201cNo food, no work,\u201d and \u201cThere is hunger in the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaduna residents express concern about hunger as protests keep them indoors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna residents are complaining about an exacerbating hunger situation as they are confined to their homes following the commencement of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319,15],"tags":[2088,1526,22587,10514,22689,339,17553,180,10386,1857,1909],"class_list":["post-44830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kaduna","category-news","tag-about","tag-concern","tag-express","tag-hunger","tag-indoors","tag-kaduna","tag-keep","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-residents","tag-them"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}