Politicians behind price hikes in our markets – Traders declare

The Coalition of Market Women has described as “sadness and disappointment”, activities by some of their colleagues in the Ghana Union of Traders Association who connive with politicians to quote inaccurate prices of food stuff on the market.

The Coalition claimed in a release that some of their members have been approached by some political leaders to increase their prices invariably to bring about economic hardship on consumers, so as to create disaffection against the ruling government.

“We wish to express our worry over how some of our colleague market women have started increasing the prices of their items astronomically, with no apparent economic reason.

The statement jointly signed by, President Daavi Emilia Adzo and Mary Aframea alleged, “These politicians promised to pay our members an amount of GHC 1,000.00 each to pursue this unethical and inhuman agenda”.

“At least ten members of our coalition from the Kasoa, Kaneshie, Agbogbloshie, Katamanto and Dome Markets have already received the money. And it is evident these markets, how prices from sellers are skyrocketing”.

“The question is how many unpatriotic Ghanaians have been approached by these diabolic politicians to pursue this agenda?

“We only hope that the recent demonstrations and activities of the Ghana Union of Traders Association were not triggered or influenced by some of these wicked machinations.

“The Coalition agrees to the implementation of the law which seeks to realign or assign foreign traders to move away from petty trading into other industrial and manufacturing operations. We believe it will create a lot of market space and opportunities for our members and create jobs for the youth.

“However, we believe that our actions and demands should be based on good will, not malice.

“The Coalition of Market Women certainly doesn’t understand why, after a task force has been formed to implement the law, some of our friends still continue to pursue this unpatriotic and unproductive agenda”.