Nigerian clothier Tania Omotayo, has expressed her frustration over the rising stamp of residing in the country after discovering that a pack of strawberries became as soon as being supplied for ₦50,000 at a grocery store in Lagos.

The businesswoman, who shared her response on Snapchat, puzzled how well-liked fruits might presumably develop to be so costly at a time when many Nigerians are combating the cruel financial system.

She wrote on Snapchat, “Are we no longer performed admire this in this country?”

Her complaints reach barely one month after President Bola Tinubu directed the Federal Executive Council (FEC) committee on meals safety to swiftly-tune measures geared in direction of lowering the excessive stamp of meals all over the country.

Naija Info reports that the Minister of Relate for Agriculture and Meals Security, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, confirmed the President’s directive in Abuja at a capacity-constructing workshop for Senate correspondents.

Constant with Abdullahi, the President’s unique directive centres on ensuring the tender and fetch transportation of farm invent all over the country to cut down logistics prices, which relish been a indispensable driver of meals inflation.

“The President has given an identical recount with a federal executive council committee already coping with it on how we are going to promote protected passage of agricultural foods and commodities all over our diversified routes in the country,” he stated.

Nigeria has been combating rising meals insecurity for the reason that removal of gasoline subsidy in Would possibly perchance perchance 2023, coupled with insecurity on highways and excessive transport prices which relish disrupted the waft of items from farms to markets.

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