A middle-aged woman identified as Mrs Rebecca Gbaje got uncontrollably teary after a wheelbarrow pusher disappeared with the foodstuff she bought at Kwaita village market in Kwali area of Abuja.
According to eyewitnesses, some customers and traders gathered to console with the woman, while some sympathisers walked around the market in search of the absconded barrow pusher.
While narrating to sympathisers who stood to console her amid tears, the woman said she bought the food items comprised of Mudus of rice, beans, maize and other ingredients and engaged the barrow pusher to help her take the items to the roadside.
Mrs Gbaja noted that after the barrow pusher started moving to the road with the items, she stopped over to buy fish and asked him to wait for her.
‘’After buying the fish, I turned back but could not see the barrow pusher again,” she said.
Mrs Gbaja disclosed that she came from Fogbe village to Kwaita market to buy the food stuffs amounting to N23, 300.
It was gathered that some traders contributed money for the woman to buy some other food stuff.
