The National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS) has advised traders to desist from arbitrary increment in the prices of food items and household commodities for the next week’s Eid-il-Fitri.
Its Director of Mobilisation in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, Mrs Moradeyo Ajiboye, gave the advice during a sensitisation the society organised for traders.
Ajiboye said she did not understand the traders’ fondness for ‘‘unjustifiable increase in the prices of consumables and household items in most markets, especially, at festive periods.’’
According to her, the advice became imperative as Eid-il-Fitri, the Muslim end of fasting, will be holding in a few days’ time.
She advised the traders to stop the habit of capitalising on festivities and sacred periods to review the prices of their wares upward without any justification.
The director said that such an act, which was without approval from the constituted authorities, needed to be promptly checked by relevant government agencies.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that food items such as rice, beans, yam flour, milk, sugar, vegetables, fruits, groundnut oil, tomatoes and pepper have always been arbitrarily hiked during festive periods.
Ajiboye said most traders had bought some of the items now being sold at higher prices at cheaper prices before.
Also, Chief Missioner, Nasirullahi-li-Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) in Omu-Aran Alhaji Mustapha Abdusalam, described price hike by traders as an act of sabotage against Allah’s commandment.
“I wonder why these consumables will now be subjected to arbitrary price hike due to the Ramadan and Eid-il-Fitri,” he said.
Abdusalam asked why some locally produced consumable items that had nothing to do with the exchange rate of the naira to the dollar were being subjected to arbitrary increase.
“Can you imagine an unjustifiable increase in the prices of garri and yam flour due to the recent fall in the value of the naira as against the dollar?
“Even producers of sachet water and vegetable sellers are now capitalizing on the fall of naira to hike the price of their commodities,’’ he said.
He urged Nigerians, especially traders, to always transact their businesses in accordance with the Islamic injunctions so as to attract Allah’s favour.
“It is only by so doing that we can gain the desired eternal salvation,” he said.The National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS) has advised traders to desist from arbitrary increment in the prices of food items and household commodities for the next week’s Eid-il-Fitri.
Its Director of Mobilisation in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, Mrs Moradeyo Ajiboye, gave the advice during a sensitisation the society organised for traders.
Ajiboye said she did not understand the traders’ fondness for ‘‘unjustifiable increase in the prices of consumables and household items in most markets, especially, at festive periods.’’
According to her, the advice became imperative as Eid-il-Fitri, the Muslim end of fasting, will be holding in a few days’ time.
She advised the traders to stop the habit of capitalising on festivities and sacred periods to review the prices of their wares upward without any justification.
The director said that such an act, which was without approval from the constituted authorities, needed to be promptly checked by relevant government agencies.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that food items such as rice, beans, yam flour, milk, sugar, vegetables, fruits, groundnut oil, tomatoes and pepper have always been arbitrarily hiked during festive periods.
Ajiboye said most traders had bought some of the items now being sold at higher prices at cheaper prices before.
Also, Chief Missioner, Nasirullahi-li-Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) in Omu-Aran Alhaji Mustapha Abdusalam, described price hike by traders as an act of sabotage against Allah’s commandment.
“I wonder why these consumables will now be subjected to arbitrary price hike due to the Ramadan and Eid-il-Fitri,” he said.
Abdusalam asked why some locally produced consumable items that had nothing to do with the exchange rate of the naira to the dollar were being subjected to arbitrary increase.
“Can you imagine an unjustifiable increase in the prices of garri and yam flour due to the recent fall in the value of the naira as against the dollar?
“Even producers of sachet water and vegetable sellers are now capitalizing on the fall of naira to hike the price of their commodities,’’ he said.
He urged Nigerians, especially traders, to always transact their businesses in accordance with the Islamic injunctions so as to attract Allah’s favour.
“It is only by so doing that we can gain the desired eternal salvation,” he said.
