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Bakers Begin Strike On Monday
May 02, 2008 14:50, 124 views
By Ayodele Lawal
Producers of bread will on Monday, 5 May go on a strike to protest the increase in the prices of baking materials, which include wheat, butter, sugar, etc.
The decision was taken at the meeting of a Joint Action Committee led by the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria and the Special Bread Bakery Owners Association of Nigeria.
Alhaji Lateef A. Oguntoyinbo, chairman of the committee, announced the impending strike.
P.M.News gathered that the meeting is still ongoing. Other members of the committee include Ola Balogun, Elder Bola Akinbola, Lateef Rufai, and others.
They said that they have set up a task force to monitor bakers who may want to defy the directive.
Prices of food stuffs, especially rice, have risen sharply in recent times, paving way for an imminent food crisis in most parts of the world.
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Kowele
2 May 2008 16:24Nigerians too should go on yam
Niyi
2 May 2008 16:37Yam is expensive already !!!
Joseph Kabikala
2 May 2008 17:03I am always suprised at why bakers go on strike any time the cost of their materials rise. Is the price of bread determined by PPPRA as obtains in the petroleum industry? Why can’t they just increase the price of their product and let the law of demand and supply determine the eventual price the public is willing to pay for that essential commodity?
I never hear of producers of palm oil, biscuits, rice, yams, cakes, pure water, akara, moin-moin and groundnuts going on strike in order to protest the rising cost of production.
So what is peculiar about Nigerian bakers?
amaechi
2 May 2008 18:27If nigerians can join me, I swear me and my family will embark on bread eating strike for the next one year, even when they have called off their strike. They are not serious.
ollllllllllll
2 May 2008 18:49There is global food shortage now and not only in Nigeria. The bakers have to understand this.
obizzy
4 May 2008 03:58Bakers should stop disturbing the masses.When their cost of production inceases , they should increase the cost
of their products too. Then the masses would determine either to partronise their products or not.
annex onuc
4 May 2008 04:27something spectacular abut bakers is thet every body goes for bread especially the children so they are very significant in the society