‘Pepper is three for N200,’ Akwa Ibom governor laments soaring food prices

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“We are not lazy people. My grandmother used to have a farm in our house. All the leaves, pepper and she cooks three times a day,” the governor said. Prices of commodities have tripled after President Bola Tinubu in May last year announced an end to petrol subsidy, a policy that saw the price of petrol jump from N189 in May last year to N750 currently.

“As of last year, transportation cost for a bag of pepper was N2,500 but we are now paying N4,000 for the same quantity of pepper,” she said. “Feeds is going at N13,000. When we were selling eggs N3,300, feeds was N12,700 depending on where you are buying. So the price of feed now moved to N13,000 – it is not enough for the price to move from N3,500 to N4,500,” he said, adding that he sells at N4,000 a crate.how the price jumped to N10,000 for five-litre container, indicating an increase of 122 per cent from the N4,500 that it was sold in April.

Ini Akpabio, a professor of agricultural extension and former dean, of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Uyo had also told PREMIUM TIMES, about a week ago, that market unions in the state are behind the hike in prices of some commodities.

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