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Sierra Leone: This Week in the Market
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Concord Times (Freetown)
7 August 2008
Posted to the web 7 August 2008
Freetown
With Juliana Boston-Clarke To get the latest prices of some foodstuff, This Week in the Market visited some marketplaces in Freetown yesterday.
A trader at the Dove Cote market, Adama Sesay, said the cost of a bag of big pepper is now Le120, 000 while 'Neneh curraw' is sold for Le180, 000.
"A bag of groundnut is sold for Le 330,000 and a cup is Le1, 300," she said adding that transporting their wares from the hinterland to the city is very expensive.
Mariatu Kamara, a business woman at PZ market said groundnut oil is now sold at a rate of Le112, 000 per gallon while palm oil goes for Le 777, 000 per gallon. A bag of onions is sold for Le 55, 000.
She said if these prices are not reduced, she has no option but to sell a pint of groundnut oil, for example, for Le 2, 000 and Le 1, 300 for palm oil.
Kamara appealed to the All Peoples Congress (APC) government through the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alimamy P. Koroma, to dialogue with importers of these food commodities to enforce a reduction in prices thus making food more affordable to ordinary man.
Hassan Watfa, a businessman at No. 25 Sani Abacha Street who sells different types of rice, says a bag of 'Fenfen' rice now goes for Le130, 000 while AAA costs Le 126,000 and Blue bag for Le126, 000.
At Watfa's shop, the big gallon of groundnut oil is Le, 110,000; the smaller gallon is Le58, 000; Jumbo Maggi sells for Le280, 000 per cartoon and a box of Shrimps Maggi is Le 11,000.
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Watfa too, appealed to the government to ensure that prices of foodstuff are made to be less expensive.
Juliana Boston-Clarke, Thank you very much for this article. I know the food prices are almost unbearable for many there, and we try to send help for food from here (CoolWater Project is an NGO from the U.S.) It is nice to get these reports of food prices so that we can keep up on just how much it costs to help feed others there. Please keep the articles coming. CoolWater Projects, Inc.
While it will be inhuman not to help those who cannot, through no fault of theirs, help themselves, I submit that the peoples of Sierra Leone CAN help themselves.
The systematic destruction by both identical shadow, proxy parties, APC = SLPP,and vice versa, of the agricultural foundation (recall Stevens' destruction of the railroad system that used to haul food from the provinces to the markets of Freetown) of the territorial state of Sierra Leone and thus, capitalist exchange ranging over food and other stomach goods, is exclusively responsible for the current food crisis.
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My friend, if you care about your money, which I shall decently assume you earned with the sweat of your brow, you will not invest a NICKEL, NAY, NOT EVEN A PENNY, in the sopist occupied territory of Sierra Leone.
First, your cash flow will be exposed to the virus of the ubiquitous "bribe" or, "dash," a disaster for a capitalist firm. Beyond the undue economic transactional costs; the "dash," being only the tip of the iceberg of corruption, there is the moral dimension: assuming you are a muslim, you are COMMANDED BY ALLAH, by and through... [Read Full Text]
THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN FOR THE ORDINARY SIERRA LEONEANS WHO CANNOT COPE WITH THE SOARING COST OF LIVING, THE CONTAINMENT OF WHICH THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE. I THEREFORE ADVISE COOLWATER, INC. TO BECAREFUL WHO THEY MAKE THEIR DONATIONS TO. THERE ARE A LOT OF DRUG DEALERS, CROOKS AND CON MEN AROUND THE CORRIDORS OF POWER THESE DAYS. BE VERY CAUTIOUS. MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR FACILITATING THE SURVIVAL OF OUR HAPLESS PEOPLE
THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN FOR THE ORDINARY SIERRA LEONEANS WHO CANNOT COPE WITH THE SOARING COST OF LIVING, THE CONTAINMENT OF WHICH THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE. I THEREFORE ADVISE COOLWATER, INC. TO BECAREFUL WHO THEY MAKE THEIR DONATIONS TO. THERE ARE A LOT OF DRUG DEALERS, CROOKS AND CON MEN AROUND THE CORRIDORS OF POWER THESE DAYS. BE VERY CAUTIOUS. MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR FACILITATING THE SURVIVAL OF OUR HAPLESS PEOPLE
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