”Izu, AC Don Add Money For Market oo, Wetin U…

By Nwankwo Izuchukwu Divine

AC Don Add Money – I was in the shop on Tuesday, November 15, attending to customers, when my phone rang. It was my uncle, and immediately I picked, he said: ”Izu, AC don add money for market oo. Wetin u don sell?”

“I never sell any AC since morning”, I replied.

”Okay” he responded and hung up, apparently relieved.

Science has what it calls Gravitational Force (force of gravity), which states the certainty of anything thrown up to come down.

Incidentally, this force doesn’t seem to apply in Nigeria Markets, in the sense that prices of any food item or commodity that goes up hardly or never comes down.

It has become a norm and Nigerians appear to have become used to it..I knew when a razor blade sold for Five Naira. Before then, it had sold for lower than that amount. Now, in some places, anything lower than One hundred Naira cannot buy a razor blade. The same thing applies to other commodities in the market. For instance, a paint rubber of garri which once sold for One hundred and fifty Naira, now sells for Nine hundred to One thousand Naira. What commodity can we say had a hike in its price and later come down? None!

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Even nomination forms for the different elective offices in the 2023 general elections, hitherto affordable by many aspirants, have their prices hit the rooftops. For instance, the All Progressives Congress (APC) sold its ticket for House of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate, Governorship and President for N5 million, N10 million, N20 million, N50 million and N100 million respectively against. These are far higher than what it used to be, across all the political parties.

From this scenario, one begins to wonder whose fault it is – the government or the people? Closer consideration shows that both sides have a major role to play, the government as it concerns the Economy and its stabilisation and the decisions of the market Union, industries and social groups in the country.

However, one thing that bothers everyone is that even as prices of food items and other commodities keep skyrocketing, the standard of life of majority of the Nigerian people hasn’t improved at all.

Salaries of workers in both government and private institutions haven’t been increased unless for those in top government positions or top business people even though they are not totally exempted from it since there is a saying that the rich also cry.

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What could be the solution? This is a question every Nigerian craves for an answer for. Of course, the principle of national development, is not a role for the government alone; it is collective. There must be collective effort of the both the government, its agencies and the people.

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The people in the sense that the market union and industries must be responsive to price regulations. At the end of it all, everyone lives to benefit.