Scarcity Of Bread To Hit South-West Nigeria – Bakers

South-West residents of Nigeria will suffer a lack of bread over the Association of Master Bakers plan to stop production over the high cost of baking materials.

The Chair, Southwest Association o Bakers, Alhaji Abolusodun Salawu and the Lagos chairman, Ambassador Raji Omotunde decried that the last time bakers increased the price of bread was in 2016. ”But today prices of baking materials have gone up astronomically,” he said.

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The association said: “We cannot continue to run our business at a loss. Each time we talked about the cost of flour, sugar, butter, e.t.c.The producers of these products always complain that they do not get foreign exchange directly from the Federal government hence they are forced to buy dollars in the black market. We, therefore appeal to the government to come to our aid before we finally down tools