Former Head of the Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, has lambasted some Ghanaian traders over the high cost of foodstuff in the country.
Charles Owusu, in a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo", expressed his disgust over the high prices of commodities and its attribution to global economic challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine/Russia war.
According to him, some traders have placed extortionate prices on their commodities to make the Akufo-Addo government unpopular.
He backed his argument with his own experience telling host Nana Yaw Kesseh that he recently received foodstuffs from Techiman and the prices shocked him.
He narrated that he received 100 tubers of yam and all cost him GHC 650, wondering why commodities at places like Techiman are so cheaper than those found in markets in the capital city, Accra.
"Why is it that when it comes to Accra, they sell it at such high prices, just to make the government unpopular? How?", he exclaimed.
To him, the traders are "intentionally increasing the prices of commodities so that there will be hardships in the country".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Papa Owusu how many lts of fuel do you think will take a truck full load of yam from T to A
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Aaah...Charles don't say that. How much would you have spent on transportation to and fro Techiman to get 100 tubers of yam even for free?
Hahahaaaa, you are government, support NPP supporters with capital to also sell same foodstuffs and goods at cheaper prices. What was the exchange rate between the cedi and dollar/ pounds sterling as at 2017 and what is the exchange rate today? If traders are deliberately increasing prices to make the government unpopular then i want to believe they are all NDC, if not the NPP business men and women don't like government. A die hard NPP businessman is one who goes to buy maize in the hinterlands for GHC 100.00 cedis a bag and now sell it for GHC 60.00 a bag. Why won't you go into planting for food and jobs support, cultivate a thousand acre maize farm, calculate your total expenditure on the whole farm from ploughing, to sowing to weeding/ weedicides to harvesting to storage and transportation. Now go to the market and sell a bag of maize for half the prevailing market price, your name will enter the NPP's Guinness book of records, try it , you also have hands, legs and brains to do business. Act now.