The council noted with dismay the reports obtained from members of the public, confirming that most of the traders hide under middle-men to inflate the prices of goods such as tomatoes, pepper, vegetables, palm oil, locust beans, meat, garri, among others by dictating prices to the farmers that brought them to the markets for sale.
Ewi-in-Council, who cancelled various associations responsible for charging exorbitant prices for their goods ordered that vegetables not be sold more than fifty naira, pepper, one hundred naira, garri, seven hundred niara while a kilogram of meat should be reduced to four thousand five hundred naira.
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