Hassan Ayariga, a lawmaker in Ghana, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to establish a standard to regulate the cost of food products on the market.The politician accuses some market vendors of intentionally raising prices while blaming the government in a Daily Graphic post on Facebook.The APC leader claimed that traders are making life difficult for citizens and blaming the dollar for it.

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Read his full statement below:“Prices of foodstuffs such as local bananas, pawpaw, coconut, salt, okro, cassava, kontomire, palm oil, koko, Fura and Wassa Wassa have gone up astronomically in the market.“Even when all these items are all grown in Ghana, those commodity's prices have been doubled in the markets and we still blame the dollar. Ghanaian traders and businessmen are making life unbearable for fellow Ghanaians.

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“Government should institute a price guarantee and control system to control prices of goods and services in the system.”

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