Ewi-in-Council slashes prices of foodstuffs in Ado-Ekiti markets

Following astronomical increase in price foodstuffs in various markets in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, the Ewi-in-Council, swung into on Monday, by dissolving associations in markets and warned traders against inflating prices of foodstuffs.

The council gave the warning in Ado-Ekiti during a meeting with the leadership and some members of market women association.

The council expressed concern over the reports that most of traders in the markets hide under middle-men to inflate the prices of foodstuffs such as tomatoes, pepper, vegetable, palmoil, locust beans, meat, garri, among others by dictating prices to the farmers that brought them to the markets for sale.

Dissolving various market associations fingered in charging exorbitant prices for foodstuffs, the Ewi-Council ordered that vegetables should not be sold more than fifty naira, pepper, one hundred naira, garri, seven hundred niara while kilogram of meat should be reduced to four thousand five hundred naira.

Speaking during the meeting, the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe noted that the step was taken to make life bearable for residents of the town while appealing to the leadership of traders in the market to effect the directive.

Oba Adejugbe said chiefs would continue to monitor the directives in market places to ensure strict implementation and sanction defaulters.