Who is Responsible for the scarcity of Tomatoes in Nigeria?

Weeks ago, The popular Mile 12 market was overflowing with fresh succulent and juicy red tomatoes. Today, not so much. Who and what is causing the scarcity? Some say Dangote's factory in Kano and the more logical is the recent Tomato Pest Invasion in the Northern states such as Katsina that has disseminated Tomato farms and also the bad weather in the North due to excess heavy rain.

 Even the Minister for Agriculture jumped on the Bandwagon to say its Dangote and  Erisco Industries buying up all the produce for their factories.

A resident of Kano interviewed noted that they also have been affected by the tomato scarcity as they cannot buy fresh tomatoes again. Most of the women who bought tomatoes in large quantities have dried them and are now selling them to us dried.
She also confirmed  that most of the villages where these tomatoes are planted are experiencing heavy rainfall and so  have had to stop planting because the rain has washed away some of their crops.

Mallam Musa, a mallam in Kano said that “Dangote shouldn’t be blamed for the scarcity because farmers don’t have tomatoes in their farms and the ones who have prefer to sell to Dangote instead of allowing it to get bad.”

Furthermore, he stated that some of these farmers have abandoned planting tomatoes because they cannot afford the high cost of petrol to power the pumping machines to irrigate the farms.