{"id":31447,"date":"2020-09-15T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31447"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:15:56","slug":"finance-minister-ahmed-disagrees-with-presidency-says-food-prices-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31447","title":{"rendered":"Finance minister, Ahmed, disagrees with presidency, says food prices going up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, on Monday, in what appeared a contradicting to the presidency, said prices of food products in the country were going up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmed\u2019s statement is contrary to claims by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu<\/a>, who last week said that food prices were dropping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the minister, while appearing on NTA\u2019s \u2018Good Morning Nigeria\u2019 programme on Monday, said indeed the prices of food were rising, adding however, that it was unlikely that the prices of food would rise further because of the increase in the price of petrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She noted, that most trucks conveying agricultural produce use diesel and not petrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to her, it would be good if subsidy could be targeted at certain sectors and not to all Nigerians as was done in the previous regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cIt is true that food prices are going up and as I said earlier on, sensible subsidy is the one that is done on production, not on consumption because when you use gasoline in your car, you burn it and you have to put it in your car again and burn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut if you now change the regime and say any truck that carries food or produce, the diesel price is subsidised, you are subsidising production because it means food items get to the market cheaper but as long as you are subsidising consumption, whether it is fuel or electricity, there will always be the propensity for gain in the system and then there is always the fact that you are subsiding everybody and it is not everybody that needs it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shehu had said last week that food prices were on the decline, berating a Channels Television guest for saying otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shehu had said: \u201cTo say that the prices of food isn\u2019t coming down, I think the scholar has detached himself from the market because we sat through the meeting of the National Food Security Council and we heard presentations by experts \u2013 people who had surveyed the markets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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