Monday, 15 August 2016

Economic woes: Hunger is now the National Anthem

Hunger now the National Anthem!

*High cost of goods persists
*Market women lament low patronage and scarcity of funds
*The Naira continues to be worthless

ONITSHA - Nigerians has continued to witness a high cost of goods ranging from cosmetics', provisions, foodstuffs as well as fairly used clothes popularly called Okirika. When BushFm visited a cross section of Nigeria markets, the story was almost the same everywhere. The popular Ose market in Onitsha and Ogbe-Ogonogo market in Asaba was the first point of call. At Ose market in Onitsha, you could notice the displeasure in the eyes of the market men and women as the sit idly waiting for a never-coming customer. While some erroneously believes that the 'bad market' was peculiar only to the markets in the entire zone, as a result of the
Federal Governments alleged disdain and skewed economic policy implementation against the zone, others say the Federal Government led by Mr Buhari is just being plain wicked against the masses. Mrs Angela a plastics seller was very emphatic when she said the country is no longer working, and everything is in a standstill now. "if you look around you will see that nothing is working again in this country, and everything is in a standstill now. Things are even getting worst everyday, nobody is coming to buy plastic anymore, instead they rather repair their broken plastic than buy new ones. 'Can you imagine? I have been sitting down here
since morning without selling anything, unlike before when I used to make between Six thousand and Eight thousand Naira daily'. My dear... there is hunger in the land, She lamented!"

A plantain seller BushFm later learnt was actually a widow, mistook our reporters as government agents and was almost irate when she was asked to say something about the 'bad market' by our reporters. "God will never forgive you people... All this money you people are putting in everything eh... God will punish you people. Even the kerosene we are using to cook is now very very costly... is it because you people are using Gas?" She queried.

Away from Ose market Onitsha, the situation was even worst in Ogbe-Ogonogo market Asaba. When BushFm visited the now modern market, the market was almost scanty as you could see marketers discussing inside their different Shops instead of selling. A quick survey of the foodstuffs market showed that things were exceedingly very expensive. For instance, Four pieces of small sized Potato cost between One hundred and fifty naira and Two hundred naira depending on who is the seller. Unlike before when it was sold for fifty naira. The same goes for a tuber of Yam which was about a hundred and fifty naira before, now costs between
three hundred naira and four hundred naira as the case may be. While a piece of Onion is sold at the rate of twenty naira.


*Naira continues to be worthless:

For Mrs Rose the naira is now a worthless currency, since the present government took over power from the Peoples Democratic Party. She lamented that the naira could now hardly buy anything of value in the market other than a bottle of beer! The naira has continued to grow weaker making it difficult to import even fairly used clothes(Okirika). Rose, a graduate of Business Administration from the University of Binin, said she ventured into Okirika business because of the lucrative nature of the business. But now she is planning of abandoning it because the reverse is now the case. According to her, "I am very stranded
and frustrated now, I voted for President Buhari thinking that he will be different from others. But it is now very clear that others are even better than him, right now there is no food on the table of the common man, no fuel, no kerosene, no light, and the exchange rate of naira to the dollar keep increasing. Infact there is real hunger in the land, that is the new NATIONAL ANTHEM!

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The government have lost it .

noblejayz:
The government have lost it .

Zombies will not agree with you on this

Una never chichumtin!