The
Akwa Ibom State government has issued a 31-day ultimatum to traders to
reduce the cost of foodstuff in the market across the state or face the
dissolution of their market unions.
In a letter written to the various market unions on Monday,
Idorenyin Raphael, the Special Assistant to Governor Udom Emmanuel on
Traders’ Matters, stated that the Akwa Ibom State government has ordered
traders to immediately reduce the cost of foodstuff in the market
across the state.
Raphael, in the letter, threatened that the state government would
dissolve the leadership of any union that does not comply with the order
within 31 days, adding that the unions were taking undue advantage of
the poor economic situation in the country to inflate prices of
foodstuffs, thereby causing unnecessary hardship among the people.
The governor’s aide later appeared on a radio programme on
Wednesday to explain how the unions were allegedly responsible for the
high prices of foodstuffs in the markets.
“Garri is selling between N30,000 and N22,000 per bag in the
state, but if you go outside Akwa Ibom garri it is sold between N18, 000
and N17, 000…. The union doesn’t allow people who are not their members
to sell garri in bags in the market,” Mr. Raphael said on the radio
programme.
“If you are not their member and you bring in bags of garri
into the market, they will seize them from you. If you look at it, there
are no Customs duties on garri, and garri is not purchased with
dollars, so it is the union that is causing the price increase.
“We will not continue to fold our hands and watch them do this; the unions must give traders the free hand to sell their goods.
“Another example is the crayfish. If you travel to Aba (in Abia
State) you’ll discover that the crayfish there are cheaper there than
in Akwa Ibom, and the traders from Aba are buying from here. It is
because of the union,” Raphael said, adding that the government
would do whatever it takes to break the monopoly that the unions are
trying to create in the markets.
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