Figures have shown that about 70% of the families in Adamawa and other states could not make ram sacrifices during this Eid-El-Kabir, even when the market prices go down with figures above 40%, the Periscope Global survey can reveal.
The constituents and ram sellers have attributed the unfortunate development to the activities of the delegates during the political party primaries where a stupendous amount of money was reported to have played a significant role as a determiner.
Politicians do flood ram markets. When it does happen, the value of rams would rise beyond profit margin as in last year, making it tough for the people with less capital to afford to buy.
Politicians will then donate the rams to the constituents with a view to ease the financial hardship.
This year, the story reads rather differently. Although the rams have flooded the markets more than that of last year, the constituents are without purchasing power, prices would therefore have to go down, sometimes even below the cost price, as the politicians who have hitherto spent so much on the delegates, ignored the markets.
The delegates on the other hand have stupendous vision beyond what their activities at the party primaries generated to make a vision, they could therefore not colonize the markets for the flooded rams, to buy and share.
The commercial livestock farmers who fattened rams at home for the purpose of the Eid-El-Kabir are the worst hit. It would be a loss maintaining the unsold rams beyon Eid-El-Kabir.