Frozen food sellers in Asaba and its environs recorded high patronage in spite the availability of live chickens and turkeys during Christmas celebrations, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Some of the frozen food sellers told NAN on Wednesday in Asaba that patronage was very high compared to sales last year.
They said that they had never recorded such patronage in the last three years as customers started trooping in to buy frozen chicken and turkey as early as Dec. 23.
Mrs Linda Azubuike, a frozen food seller at the Asaba Modern market, said: “Sales have been very encouraging this year and I did not expect the quantity of sales I got this year despite the influx of live chicken in the market.
Customers starting coming since Dec. 23, and up till now they are still coming and each day I make bold to say that I sell as much as 20 cartons of chicken and turkey.
“This has never happened in the last three years and I am very happy that patronage increased this year.’’
Azubuike appealed to the government to reconsider its stand on the ban on the importation of frozen foods, adding that most Nigerians depend on them for survival.
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