Kaduna Residents Bemoan Hike In Price Of Food Stuffs, Other Commodities

Worried over the geometric rise in price of foodstuffs, the General Overseer of Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry in Sabon Tasha, Kaduna State, Pastor Yohanna Buru, has appealed to businessman and middlemen to stop the habit of creating artificial scarcity and rise in cost of foodstuffs in the market.

He advised that the reduction in prices, will enable the poor access food at affordable price.

Pastor Buru stated that clerics from both sides of the two major religions have mapped out plans to discourage deliberate increment in prices of commodities in northern Nigeria.

Buru who made the call during a chat with journalists after visiting some local markets in the metropolis with a team of Muslims to access the situation, said Almighty God is angry with any marketer or seller that doubles the prices of goods just to take advantage of the Corona-virus pandemic situation.

According to him, “Such marketer will not enter paradise, the widows and destitute are the worse hit as a result of rise of commodities in the market since the commencement of Covid-19 lockdown.

He lamented that, most orphans don’t eat three square meals due to the rise in foodstuffs in the market across the 36 states in the country.

Buru said many marketers have today turned millionaires as a result of tripling the price of foodstuffs.

He recalled that, President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed the concern of his administration about the sudden rise in food price at a time when the economy is already going through a slowdown, occasioned by the global Coronavirus situation.

Buru said, the daily increase of food price is becoming another big problem affecting lives of the citizens in the society.

He called on federal and state governments’ intervention on the situation, in order to bring some policies that would resurrect the good-old-days’ “Price Control.”

Noting that, despite Corona-virus pandemic, large numbers of Nigerian marketers are still taking the advantage of the season to double prices of goods and services in the market.

“Stop taking advantage of the pandemic seasons to make millions of naira through inflating prices of goods and services for your personal interest. He advised

“God is angry with you, and such money won’t take you to anywhere. Remember, there is a day of judgment, as well as there is paradise and hell,” he said

“God is angry with such marketers and, as such, there won’t be any God’s blessings from the money they make through such dirty gains.

“We have set up a group of clerics comprising 15 Pastors and 15 Imams for campaign and to visit unions of marketers and sellers in some parts of Northern Nigeria to talk to them in Islamic and Christianity approaches and the implication of tripling the price of foodstuff, he disclosed.

Responding, Mallam Gambo Abdullahi Barnawa Kaduna drew the attention of the middlemen to always remember the day of resurrection.

He said, “It’s really worrisome seeing rising price of food, commodities on daily basis in the region,” urging marketers to always fear God.

A middleman (name withheld) debunked the impression that, they created the rise of food stuffs in the country.

He disclosed that they spend a huge amount of money to transport commodities from rural markets to major cities.

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