Hauwa Indimi, Laments High Cost Of Tomato

Hauwa Indimi-Yar’adua, the daughter of billionaire oil businessman Mohammed Indimi, has expressed concern about growing prices for food in the country.

Taking to her verified Instagram account, the cosmetologist shared a photo of a small basket of tomatoes she purchased in Abuja for N8,000, adding that she is “still not over it yet.”

She captioned a photo of a basket of tomatoes on Instagram with the words;

I sent my staff to the market, and this is N8k tomatoes as of Monday. On Monday, July 3, she wrote, “I’m still not over it.”

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, due to the increased cost of tomatoes, several housewives in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have ceased using them for stew and other sauces.

Furthermore, some residents revealed that they have resorted to making stew with garden eggplants and carrots. They claimed that garden eggs, known as ‘ganyen gauta’ in Hausa, ‘igba’ in Yoruba, and ‘anyara’ in Igbo, could blend as well as tomatoes with rice.

Others stated that they were experimenting with pumpkin, pawpaw, or traditional soups such as white soup and palm fruit soup, also known as banga, instead of tomato stew.