Tamale bakers declare strike against high cost of flour

News from Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-04-30

Consumers of bread, cakes and other flour-based products in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region, must prepare for a shortage of this product, as bakers in the region have declared a strike in the face of rising food prices. price of flour.

According to the Association of Bakers of the Northern Region, they are unable to keep up with the rising cost of flour in the country.

Bakers say their strike aims to draw attention to the high cost of flour.

Citi News had already seen a notice saying, "All bakeries and mixers should note that from Monday, April 29 to Tuesday, April 30, will be strike days and no mixing center should work. Failure to comply with this directive will have serious consequences. "

Esther Siriboe, an executive member of the Association, told Citi News that the price of flour had increased by about 25% in the space of three weeks.

She added that the cost of sugar and other raw materials had also increased, increasing the cost of production.

"In two or three weeks, the prices of bread flour have increased by 25%. Sugar was also increased from GHc130 to GHc190. Now everything about bread has been increased and this has called for a strike. We therefore intend to also increase the prices of our products after the strike. "

According to this directive, bread producers are not allowed to produce bread, which could lead to a shortage of bread in the region.

Some of the mixers visited by Citi News have been locked. Some bakers have confirmed the strike at Citi News.

Osman Musah, a consumer, told Citi News that he had to buy more bread than usual because of the strike to make sure his household would have enough supplies up to the end of the day. that the strike be canceled.

"For me, I usually have tea in the morning, so if there is no bread, it will affect me. If they increase the price, we will definitely have no choice but to buy it. "

Other consumers said that the price of bread at the usual point of sale had increased from 3 GHc to 5 GHc.

The strike is scheduled to end on May 1, 2019.

For Mohammed Abubakari, a resident of Kpalisi, Tamale, the strike "will affect us, because if they do not produce, how will they eat those who will buy to use it for their own consumption?"

"For now, I've bought a lot. I bought more than one day that I had used to buy for a day so that it could serve for two or three days, "he said. he added.

Ashanti: The price of bread is rising

Bakers and bread sellers in the Ashanti region announced last month a 10% increase in the price of bread and other flour-based products.

Members of the local flour users' badociation said the increase was due to the fact that the price of flour had skyrocketed.

They explained that a sack of flour sold by flour mills at the price of 120 GHc had been raised to 160 GHc.