Dormaa-Ahenkro: Traders call for urgent establishment of National Consumer Authority to check pricing

Market women and traders in the Dormaa Central Municipality have called on President John Dramani Mahama to set up a National Consumer Authority to check and stabilize the price of food and commodities.

They said the nation required the authority to check and monitor retailers, wholesalers, traders, manufacturers, and producers against unreasonable and exorbitant prices put on food and other services rendered at the various markets in the country.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), they also called on President John Dramani Mahama to tackle the depreciation of the Ghana cedi to sustain them in business, expressing concern about increase in transport fares.

“The government must also put in place measures to tackle the uncontrolled increase in the prices of food as well as transport fares,” Madam Josephine Ansuaa, a trader at the Dormaa-Ahenkro Akosua Fema Dwaben Ababio II market stated.

“When transport fares go up, it affects and soars prices of food items and other stuff in the market,” she added.

Another trader, Mad Beatrice Kuwaa who sells mobile phone accessories, appealed to the President to do more and regulate the prices of goods and services, “by setting up the national Consumer Authority”.

Madam Kuwaa also added that the traders and market women were highly in anticipation about the actualization of the 24-hour economy for job creation.

A dressmaker, Felicia Kyeremaa also urged the government to reduce taxes on goods and services, as well as the high cost of electricity.

GNA