Middlemen not reason for rising food prices

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Middlemen not reason for rising food prices

By Adekunle Ade-Adeleye In his Eid el-Kabir message last Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari reflected on the vexed issue of inflation and explained the factors responsible. Apart from the disruptive hangover from the Covid-19 crisis, insecurity and terrorism, he says that the callous activities of middlemen are also to blame. It is strange he mentioned middlemen, a continuing leitmotif of his leadership’s interpretation of economic maladies. “C…