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– Pure water new price triggers protest in Benin

– Residents express mixed feelings over new selling price

A sudden increase in the price of sachet water, otherwise known as ‘pure water’ in Benin City, the Edo state capital, has caused heavy protest.

According to report reaching Naij.com, the sudden increase has led to many patrons of local eatery joints, popularly called ‘mama put’ drinking untreated borehole water kept.

However, it was learnt that while a few others who could afford the new price of pure water, opted for bottled water instead.

The increase in price sparked protest from hawkers of sachet water who lamented poor sales. It was gathered that residents can’t afford the N20 price tag of pure water as against the previous N10.

Prices of bottled water were also increased from between N50 and N60 to N70 or N80, depending on the brand.

A patron of one of the several eateries in the premises of Edo state secretariat complex, located along Sapele road, who gave his name simply as Iredia, told Naij.com that he decided to drink the untreated water as he could not afford to but 2 satchets of pure water at N40.

“My brother, how much is my salary? I used to buy N200 food and one or two sachets of pure water every day from the meagre salary I earn. But now that it has gone up to N20 per sachet, that means I have to manage the water in the jug. After all, that is what I drink at home,” Iredia said.


Angry hawkers of sachet water disclosed that a bag of sachet water, which contains 20 sachets, that used to sell for N100 now sells for N150.

One of the protesters, Helen Usunobun, who spoke to journalists, said the situation has worsen their plight, as they have to pay the mandatory N60 daily ticket fees to council officials.

She said they could not cope with the hike in price which would leave them making N30 profit for very bag of sachet water.

“They said dollar has gone up. Whether dollar is in the water, we don’t know,” she said.

Also speaking in the same vein, Enoma Blessing, many of her customers have had to reduce their intake of water, noting that some who used to consume four sachet water now buys only one per day.

John Irhue, a water factory operator, who described the situation as “terrible,” blamed the price hike on increase packaging and bagging materials.

He said a roll packaging film that used to sell for N600,000 last week now sells for N920,000, while the bagging material rose from N3300 to N5000.

Irhue said: “It is the sourcing of the materials that is causing this problems. Nobody can give water treatment and sell at the former price of N100. It is a terrible situation we have found ourselves.”

The Chairman of the Water Producers Association, Henry Eremokhai, however said the approved price by the association was N120.

According to Eremokhai who bemoaned the situation, said many water factory have been forced to close down due to dearth of packaging materials.

Meanwhile, Nigerians have reacted to the reported instability of the naira.


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– Some MDAs risk zero allocation
– Certain grey areas identified in 2015 budget to be probed

The discrepancies identified in the 2016 budget proposal may appear to be unsettled ahead of next week’s plan by both chambers of the National Assembly to harmonise its budget.

The House of Representatives on Thursday, February 25 summoned the minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, the Accountant General of the Federation Ahmed Idris and Minister of Budget and National Planning.



This is even as many ministries, departments and agencies of government risk zero allocation in 2016 if they or their oversighting committees miss deadline set by the House of Representatives for final harmonization Udo Ndoma.

Speaking on Thursday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara issued a stern warning to committees yet to submit their budget report to do so within 24 hours or risk zero allocation to all the MDAs they represent. Of all the 97 committees, only 15 had submitted their budget report to the Committee on Appproriation.

In a communication from the Appropriations Committee read at the opening of the Thursday plenary session, the speaker directed chairmen of all the standing Committees to submit and defend their MDAs budget within 24 hours or risk zero budget for 2016.

Considering the enormous work before the committee on appropriation, its chairman Abdulmumin Jibrin informed all the members that the last session of the budget defence for Friday, 25th February scheduled to commence at 10amnwould start by 8pm.

While giving update on the presentation of the 2016 budget so far, Abdulmumin Jibrin, chairman house committee on appropriations confirmed that the budget proposals of the MDAs being presented by all the standing Committee have been harmonised with their Senate counterparts.




“Since by tomorrow we will finish taking the reports, we have agreed that we will invite the Minister of Budge and Planning, Minister of Finance, the Accountant General of the Federation, the Director of Budget Office and Central Bank Governor and engage them extensively on the entire budget.
“We also have pending issues on the 2015 budget, so they have to come with 2015 budget performance and then we will go into special session,” Jibrin
stated.

He also directed the Clerk of the Committee to liaise with the office of the Clerk of the House to access the members’ database for easy dispatch of message to all the 360 members and various Committees on the 25th February deadline for final submission and consideration of the MDAs’ budget.

Meanwhile, the speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has assured Nigerians that the implementable 2016 budget will begin by March ending.

Dogara who gave the assurance on Thursday, February 25, when he received the Nigerian association of chambers of commerce, industry, mines and agriculture in his office in Abuja, however admitted that the budget has some imperfections.

viickerz:
murder.. if it was suicide,the ciggerette wont be in her hands.. if a person wants to shoot their selves.. the ciggerette will fall of their hands after the shot..
the slippers will still be on her legs if she shot herself..
she is still holding the gun.. if someone shoots herself on the head and dies instsntly, the gun will fall off their hands the moment they lose conciousness.. the person in the picture is still clutching to the gun tightly.. wich doesnt make any sense..
conclusion: the murderer shot her.. put the gun in her hands and made it seem like suicide

Gabriel6:
I haved tryed dis one and noting happen