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By Ahmad Tijjani Abdul, Kano
‘Gurasa’ (local bread) bakers, on Friday, staged a peaceful protest in Kano to expressed their discomfort over high cost of flour.
The protesters who were mostly women Entrepreneurs mass at Chediya quatters in the ancient city Friday morning with placards that reads “we condemned the high price of flour ” inflation is killing our business” “We call on Tinubu to intervene”.
Others placards has these inscriptions “This is where we get our daily bread, we will stop the production”, “Gurasa is mostly staple food in the north”, “Federal government, assist us, we are dying because of the high prices of flour.”
Gurasa is a staple food that’s popular among the northerners, and majorly engaged hundreds of thousands of women in self employment across the region.
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Freshly baked Gurasa
Hajia Fatimah Auwal, leader of the women group told Reporters that “We are out here on the streets protesting to let the leaders know the deteriorating situation in which we are at the moment.
Mrs Auwal stated that “This is our small scale business facing deterioration due to rise in price of flour, it is a business for the poor that the rich cannot dare venture into.”
She explained that “We are in a very difficult situation, we need help. This is a small scale industry mostly run by women. Life is becoming more difficult, we can hardly feed or send our children to school due to this hardship. “
“Many have lost their capital. It is such that only 25 percent of us are now remaining in the business as many others have closed down due to lack of capital.
According to her “We used to buy floor at the rate of N16,000 in the past but now it sells for N43,000. This is absurd. What we produce is a common food for the poor and is now becoming unaffordable. Any time we go to buy flour we get an increase of N1,500 to N2,000. “
Hajia Auwalu called on the authorities and those concerned to look into this matter because we are running out of business and is affecting our families.
She hinted that “Currently we use the IRS flour produced by Abdussamad, it is the best for our products but we cannot afford it any longer. If nothing is done, we have no choice but to close down and this will affect the general public.