…commercial transporters double cost
…’keke’ and okada riders increase cost by 50 percent
…there’s palpable fear that a bag of foreign rice may hit N50k by December
It was moaning and groaning as Abuja residents bitterly complain about the high cost of living in satellite towns barely one week after the federal government increased electricity tarrif and cost of fuel.
A short survey conducted by TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) clearly indicate that all is not well with Nigerians residing in the capital city of Nigeria.
At the Kubwa market and other smaller markets in 2/1, Biazhim and Arab Road the story is all the same.
A bag of local rice now costs N26,000.00 from the initial price of N24,000.00.
Imported rice now costs N32,000.00 from the initial cost of N28,000.00 as at last week.
A kilo of cow meat now costs N2,000.00 from N1,500.00 in Kubwa, Dutse and Dede markets.
Some of the traders that spoke to TNG said FG is insensitive to the plights of the poor man as it’s already too difficult surviving with the crippling effects of the pandemic.
Madam Theresa Uziohu from Kogi State, a petty trader said, “oga mi how things no go go up when be say from big markets transport don go up.
“Now, we dey pay more for NEPA and government know say we need freezer to cool the fish make e for no spoil.
“This government no like poor people at all we think say oga Buhari go help us we no know say na hunger be him second name.
At Biazhim, a rural settlement in Kubwa, the ever busy market was scanty as market women display their wares without buyers to purchase them.
In a chat with a lady who simply gave her name as Clara from Imo State, she said, “as you can see oga na rice I dey sell and from Abakaliki reach here transport no be here sir.
“For East fuel na N180 per litre so you no fit blame transporters because no be their fault oga.
“Before now from NNPC bus stop reach here for market na N200 now na N400. How much I wan gain wen Keke don dey eat my profit.
“Just wait and see by December a bag of foreign rice fit reach N50,000.00 and local rice N40,000.00”.