NIGERIANS REACTS ON HIGH COST OF FOODS ITEMS AND COOKING GAS
The recent high cost of foods and cooking gas has made life more difficult in Nigeria. The high cost of living will result to hunger in the land
Nigerians have challenged Federal Government and its intervention on the ever-increasing cost of food items and cooking gas in the country. The people who made the call in separate part of the country, said government should stem the rising cost of food items through proper economic recovery plan and implementation.
They added that Nigerians traders should assist government in minimising the excesses of middlemen and market associations in hiking the prices of commodities. The residents also identified the major factors contributing to cooking gas price hike in the nation to include lack of functional refinaries and off-takers for gas distribution.
On prices of food, it was identified that market forces, insecurity, farmer/headers clashes, insurgency, banditry, poor storage facilities and COVID-19 outbreak are major causes of food price hike in the country. ‘’Our challenge has become double in the sense that the cost of food items is high likewise that of cooking gas.
”How do we survive in this present situation when we buy a cup of beans for N150 and one kilogramme of cooking gas for N700?. Salaries cannot even feed families, not to talk of paying school fees and rent. It is only God who helps us to survive.
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