Bread Is Now Food For Rich Nigerians – Baker

Thomas Odey, a master baker has said quality bread has become food for rich people in Nigeria.Jamb Result

PEOPLES GAZETTE reports that Mr Odey stated this on Wednesday in Calabar, Cross River State.

Mr Odey stated, “Today, quality bread has become the food for the rich and many bakers without consciences are using adulterated materials such as saccharine to augment because the market is not controlled.”

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Lamenting the cost of producing bread, he said, “As of January, a 50 kilogrammes bag of wheat flour was between N16,000 and N17,500, but today, it is N28,000 in the market; sugar was between N15,000 to N16,000 while today, it goes for N28,500,” he said.Information Guide Nigeria

“The vegetable oil we use in baking was sold for N19,000 per 20 litres earlier in the year but is presently sold at N28,000; yeast was sold at N12,000 for a carton of 20 packets of 20 grams each, but now it is around N21,500.”

“This is why bakers under the auspices of Master Bakers of Nigeria are contemplating a two-week nationwide strike to protest the high cost of flour and other baking materials in the nation.

The strike option may be necessary to get the federal government’s attention on the challenges bakers go through to ensure a steady supply of bread and other confectioneries.

(PEOPLES GAZETTE)

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