 And as the preparation for the Yuletide high-tent stretches as well as consumers are terrified about the high cost of food items, clothing and all the necessities for the celebration, plus TV Africa Correspondent Destiny Momo reports. These traders of weirs and accessories are of the opinion that the biting economy is responsible for the turnout of events as lots of customers end up doing window shopping. There's no money in circulation. We thank God for life and God is actually helping us to adapt to the situation. The good thing is that the reality is coming out to play. We, based on what you have, you buy the little you can. And what about food items? Are they affordable? A visit to the popular mile 12 market gives us these views. Things are very, very expensive this time around. So the customers are not able to buy it because things are very, very expensive. Not cheap. It's really, really expensive. Like I'm surprised that we're just in 23rd and the market price is so much like normally if you can get a bucket of tomato for like say 5k I got a bucket of basket like the normal basket for 7-5. My 12 market is not what you can determine. Tomorrow it will be lesser and in an hour time maybe higher. So you can't just say it's cheaper or it's expensive. Everything in the market is very high. Things are very expensive. In fact, it's only God that will help us because the way things are now, there is no money to buy in fact. Everybody is managing. Some traders in Balogu market are paying by the road construction that has been halted. They claim this construction is causing hindrance to patronage and giving rise to other criminal activities. Not only today, since last year, we have been sovereign for the market. There's no market. Someone will buy market a range of 500 and a half before. Now going to 2000, 2005, people is not buying it. There's no money. They block the roads. Sovereignty. People will be taking legs to the upper, upper, upper bridge. To go to constant before they see the motor. Before we reach their place, it will be sovereign. Some people will be dying at the road. Some people will be sleeping at the road. It's because of that. Then they block the road. They don't do anything for Carol. They just block it for anything. With just a few days to the Christmas celebration, no knock-out sound has been heard from children or adults alike and hardly are there Christmas carols from radio or TV stations. That's the Namama Plus TV News.