Prices of bread go up in Edo

Auchi community in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, has recorded an increase in the price of bread, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) survey, has revealed.Also affected in the price increase are snacks, including meat-pie, egg-roll and sausages.The new price regime for the food items, which now has a loaf selling for between N170 and N180 as against its former price of N150, began few weeks ago.The price of one egg-roll has gone up to N80 from N60 and other items also recorded between 15 per cent and 20 per cent price increase.Sellers of the products attributed the increase in prices to bakers, who they said, added money to the cost of the items.Similarly, the bakers attributed the rise in the price of the confectioneries to increase in prices of flour and other baking materials.A baker, Mrs Sadenu Alimat, told NAN that the price of a 50-kilogramme of flour had risen from N6, 500 to N9, 000, adding that prices of other baking items had also increased.Another baker, who pleaded anonymity, blamed the increase in price of flour on the recent pronouncement by the Federal Government on compulsory 20 per cent cassava flour content in bread making in the country.``In as much as we appreciated the government's decision on the issue, the flour millers should have waited for the policy to be fully implemented before rushing to increase their prices.``It is a good policy because it will create employment for our children but we want this policy to be fully implemented in a way that all stakeholders have nothing to regret,' he said.Reacting to the development, some residents said that it would increase the hardship faced by the people and appealed to the government to urgently reappraise its policy on cassava bread.One of them, Mallam Albulwasiu Bukoye, said that if the cassava bread policy would place the masses at a disadvantaged position, it should be reconsidered.``I am sure that there are some things that needed to be looked into to ensure that everyone is happy at the end of the day,'' he said.
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