By Ujah Simon, kaduna
Worried over the geometric rise in price of foodstuff, the General Overgseer of Christ Evangelical intercessory Fellowship Ministry Sabon Tasha, kaduna State Pastor Yohanna Buru, has appealed to businessman and middlemen to stop the habit of creating artificial scarcity and rise in cost of foodstuff in the market, to enabled the poor access food at affordable price.
According to him, clerics from both sides of the two major religion have mapped out plans to discourage deliberate increment in prices of commodities in northern Nigeria.
Pastor Buru who made the called during a chat with journalists after visiting some local market in the metropolis with team of Muslims to access the situation, said almighty God is angry with any marketer or seller that doubling the prices of goods just to take advantage of the Corona-virus pandemic situation.
While stressing that such marketer will not enter paradise, Buru also said, the widows and destitute are the worse hit as a result of rise of commodities in the market, since the commencement of Covid 19 lockdown.
Buru lamented that most Orphans don’t eat three square meal due to the rise in foodstuff in the market across the 36 states in the country, stressing that many marketers have today turned millionaire as a result of tripling the price of foodstuff.
He recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari expressed the concern of his administration about the sudden rise in food price at a time when the economy is already mired in a slowdown, occasioned by the global coronavirus situation.
Buru said, the daily increase of food price is becoming another big problem affecting lives of the citizens in the society, while calling on federal and state government intervention on the situation in order to bring some policies that would regulate price control.
He note that, despite corona-virus pandemic, large number of Nigerian Marketers are still taking the advantage of the season to double price of goods and services in the market.
“Stop taking advantage of the pandemic seasons to make millions of naira through inflating prices of goods and services for your personal interest,”
“God is angry with you and suck money wont take you to any where. Remember there is a day of judgement, as well as there is paradise and hell”, he said adding that “God is angry with such marketers, and as such, there won’t be any God blessings from the money they make through such dirty gains.
“We have set up a group of clerics comprising 15 Pastors and 15 Imams for campaign and to visit unions of marketers and sellers in some part of Northern Nigeria to talk to them in Islamic and Christianity approaches and the implication of tripling the price of foodstuff”.
Responding Mallam Gambo Abdullahi Barnawa kaduna, drew the attension of the middlemen to always remember the day of resurrection.
He said, “It’s really worrisome seeing rising price of food, commodities on daily basis in the region, urging marketers to always fear God “Allah”
A middlemen “name withheld” debunk the impression, that they created the rise of food stuff in the country, also adding that, they spend huge money to transport commodities from rural market to major cities.
