The Traders Association Singer Market in Kano made a commitment to lower and stabilize the cost of necessities in the state. This was announced by Ibrahim Danyaro, the association’s chairman, revealed this to the media on Monday in Kano shortly after meeting with the Chairman of Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, (PCACC), Muhuyi Magaji Rimin-Gado.
Ten warehouses that were purportedly hoarding various food commodities at Dawanau International Grains Market and Singer Market were broken into and shut by the commission on Sunday.
Danyaro said, “We are going to work hand in hand with the commission to ensure that there is price control in order to ease life for people in Kano and beyond”.
According to him, dealers at the market are selling goods at lesser prices than companies, assuring that they would try to maintain the current price from now till Ramadan and beyond.
“We don’t increase prices of foodstuffs like rice, sugar, milk and others.”
He explained that commodity dealers at Singer Market were not hoarding goods at the expense of consumers, saying that their goods at stores were always open for sale to customers.
Earlier, Rimin-Gado reassured that the commission would go after hoarders and would not relent in its efforts.
He explained that the commodities they found hoarded at the sealed warehouses did not belong to the businessmen of Singer Market.
“They have promised to cooperate with the commission in ensuring that prices of goods are maintained or even reduced and would not rise any more.
“We are going to work with them to ensure that if the prices stabilise, we would make efforts to further reduce them, for the good of the people of Kano,” he said
