Food Prices Are Coming Down – Garba Shehu

The Presidency has on Friday declared that the prices of food items in the country are dropping as a result of the agricultural reforms of the regime of the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.

The President’s spokesperson said, “As of yesterday (Thursday) in the morning of the meeting, go and check the index in markets. For instance in Kano, millets that had gone up to N24,000 has now gone down to N12,000, N13,000. Rice that had been N25,000 is now N20,000. Corn, maize is now N18,000 for the old stock and N14,000, N15,000 for the new stock.

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“So, to say that there is no change in the prices is to show one is completely detached from what is happening in the country.”

When told by the moderators of the programme that his position was contrary to the reality being faced daily by Nigerians on the streets, Shehu insisted, “As the Germans say, if you want to get the best of the weather, open the windows. My suggestions to the journalists who sit and write all of these numbers is, send your correspondents to the streets, go to the markets and find out.

“I didn’t say that all of the prices, the changes had crashed completely. They are coming down because the harvested items are coming into the market. Prices are coming down, they will continue to go down as more and more food items are harvested. It’s a seasonal thing and we are going to see through this as well.”