The rising cost of food in Taraba State’s nooks and crannies has no doubt become a source of concern for the people of the state.
Some consumers who expressed concern about the current high prices of food items across the state were observed to have urged governments at all levels to intensify measures to address the situation as soon as possible.
The situation, as made known by them, has begun to make life unbearable for them in Jalingo and its environs.
People who have linked the sharp increase in the price of gasoline to the apron string of high food prices want the government to devise ways to wade in and cushion the untold hardships that the masses are currently experiencing.
Azubuike Innocent, who claimed that the “situation has become too bad” for the government to intervene, reeled out the current prices of various food items in Jalingo’s main market.
The government, as suggested by him, “can come to the rescue of the poor masses by purchasing enough quantities of food and selling them to the masses at a subsidized price.”
“Just like the way they use to bring in fertilizers in large quantities and sell to farmers at a cheaper price, I believe they can as well do the same by purchasing and selling the foodstuffs to those of us who are finding it difficult to maintain our families at a cheaper price,” he said.
In agreement with Innocent, Hajiya Hassana Umar told our correspondent that the state’s current economic situation is having a negative impact “on all of us.”
She emphasized that the situation “doesn’t care what religion you practice, what political party you belong to, or what language you speak,” and that voting for credible leaders in the upcoming general elections would be the surest way out of the current predicaments.
