The Twifo Atti-Morkwa District of the Central Region’s gari and beans vendors have threatened a strike action due to the rising cost of the materials required to make the delicacy.
Gari and beans, sometimes referred to as ‘Gɔbɛ’ used to be among the cheapest meals that any common person, regardless of rank, could purchase.
In addition to being inexpensive, it is also healthy because of the diversity of ingredients, which include ripe plantains, beans, palm oil, pepper, and others according on personal preference.
The equation, however, appears to have changed as a result of recent increases in the costs involved in its preparation.
Some of the vendors have been complaining to a radio station in Wassa about how their clients are suffering and how the high cost of ingredients is driving them out of business.
They claim that the reason why clients complain about the quantity of food supplied to them is not their fault, but rather the economy’s woeful soaring inflation.
They urge the government to take action to improve the circumstance.
The price of a bucket of pepper has increased from GH¢30 to GH¢60. Originally kako was GH¢1 is now a GH¢2. Nowadays, everything is really pricey. Oil is presently between GH¢100 and GH¢120. One of the sellers bemoaned, “For some of us, we’ll quit doing it.
“Now that we are serving meals, people are not happy. They complain to give the impression that we purposefully raised the pricing, a second seller of ‘Gɔbɛ’ said.
An olonka of beans is now GH¢25, although it used to be GH¢15, according to this woman. Oil was GH¢50, but it is now GH¢120. We want to stop doing business since beans and oil are so costly.
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