FILE PHOTO: A towel with a print of the Nigerian naira is displayed for sale at a street market in the central business district in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.
“The current state of the country is not palatable. Workers are unable to save, because the income is not corresponding with the astronomic high prices of items. So, it makes it so difficult to cope in the country now. “Have you seen the price of pepper, spaghetti, noodles and garri? Garri that used to be regarded as poor man’s food is now gold; a crate of eggs costs almost N2000 and average loaf of bread goes for about N500. One single bell pepper now sells for N200. Five litres of groundnut oil is now over N5000, as for palm oil, anything you see, you take it like that.
For Elton Irioke, a private sector worker, there were too many things contending for attention even with poor economic power. “In the past, I used to sell at least five cartons of fish in a day, different types of fishes. But now, if I finish selling two, that’s a good day. People are no longer buying and immediately they hear the price, they walk away, but I can only sell what I buy. Nobody is even asking for chicken and turkey again. Everyday, the price of frozen foods is going up with no end in sight; I don’t understand what is going on. I know the government is eating free food so they don’t know what is happening.
“How will customers buy the clothes I sell when they even complain of not eating three square meals in a day? Things are really difficult for the masses. I urge government to be human for once and do the needful. That is what we elected them to do, to cater for our welfare. They have failed us,” he decried.
“Inflation has affected the psychological, emotional and physical being of man. For instance, a painter of garri cost between N300 to N400 before but now sells for N1,400. You cannot get enough foodstuffs to feed your family; you just manage the little you can afford. You eat what is available and not what you want. Life has become tough for families in this country,” he lamented.
IN Cross River State, a teacher who works in one of the private schools in Calabar, Sandra Edet, said the time was very tough for every worker in Nigeria given the meagre nature of the minimum wage.
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