Camel sellers in Kano State are smiling home or perhaps to the banks with millions of naira as residents are trooping in to buy camels as the prices of rams, which are the common livestock killed during Sallah festivals have skyrocketed beyond what many residents can afford.
On Friday, Kofar Na’isa livestock market in the metropolis, PREMIUM TIMES noticed that camel sellers were making brisk business and dominated the selling points hitherto used by cows and ram sellers in previous years.
At one of the stalls still selling rams, Idris Illiyasu, a ram dealer from Sokoto, decried the low sale. He said the soaring cost of rams is the reason he was finding it difficult to get customers.
Mr Illiyasu said the prices of the rams start from N40,000 to N105,000. He said the rams selling at N105,000 were sold for N90,000 last year.
Rams selling at N50,000 now were sold at N35,000 last year,” Mr Illiyasu said.
“The surprising thing about this year’s rams market is that there is no panic buying as the Sallah celebration approaches, unlike in the previous years.
“As the Sallah approaches, the prices of rams remain higher while the buyers are shrinking,” Mr Illiyasu said.
“I have been a ram dealer, coming to Kano for over a decade, but this is the year I witnessed such high cost of rams in all the years I have been engaging in the business,” Mr Illiyasu added.
Muslims across the world use rams to celebrate Eid-el Kabir festival because it attracts the highest reward when compared to other livestock.
It Is recommended that one use a ram for the sacrifice provided one can afford it, the next in the reward is a cow.
Islam also recommends animals like the sheep, he-goat, and she-goat which are relatively cheaper than the ram, cow, and camel.
A survey of Kano livestock market suggests that the prices of cows have also skyrocketed.
Muslims across the world use rams to celebrate Eid-el Kabir festival because it attracts the highest reward when compared to other livestock.
It Is recommended that one use a ram for the sacrifice provided one can afford it, the next in the reward is a cow.
Islam also recommends animals like Islam also recommends animals like the sheep, he-goat, and she-goat which are relatively cheaper than the ram, cow, and camel.
A survey of Kano livestock market suggests that the prices of cows have also skyrocketed.
Even when groups of people contribute to buying cows, the cost still places a huge financial strain on them.
Halliru Diso, a cow dealer in the Kofar Na’isa livestock market, also complained about the increasing cost of the livestock.
He said cows are sold for between N250,000 and N1 million.