By correspondent in Lokoja.
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The national body of the Standup for Women Society,SWS, has frowned at the Federal Government’s delay to slash the cost of consumable and non-consumable commodities in the market.
The International President of SWS,Barrister Deborah Ijadele-Adetona, made the call in a statement signed by the national public relations officer of the group, Billie Nwogu and a copy available to The Reporters in Lokoja on Monday.
Ijadele-Adetona expressed concern that many people were going through lot of hardships to be able to feed at least, once a day.
According to her,SWS had gone to many indigent homes to support them, adding that with the look of things,” if nothing is done urgently to intervene, people will begin to die of hunger and starvation.
She noted that “Those who are working cannot boast of their salaries to sustain them through the month and those who laboured hardly sustain themselves, due to lack of patronage.
“I lament at the horrible sight of some people. This is beyond NGOs. The Federal and State Governments need to form a force that will help to reach out to major marketers of goods and commodities to reduce their prices by at least 50%.
” People are going through a lot, and if this is not done urgently, I am afraid, people will begin to die of hunger.”
The SWS also appealed to security agents to double their effort to protect the good citizens of the country to reduce crimes and criminality across Nigeria l, nothing that because some people hid under the canopy of too much hardship in the country to cause mayhem on the people.
Barr. Ijadele-Adetona, who commended the establishment of the National Commodity Board,urged the Federal Government to empower the board to switch into immediate action by introducing price control policy, arrest and prosecute any trader and major marketers going against the policy.
“Let the people breathe she said. The extortion by the marketers and traders is too high using the dollar rate to sell even as the common man struggles to buy what ordinarily should not be affected by dollar to naira rate.
” As it stands, no more poor man food, as common as garri, it is now for the rich, Nigerians need help now,” the SWS boss said.
Edited by Dawud Ahmed.

