A buyer in Torit Market, Emmanuela John on Tuesday expressed her concern over the continuous increase of commodity prices in Torit market.
Radio Emmanuel quoted her saying the prices keep on increasing on daily basis and that greens use to be sold at 20 SSP last year, but currently is sold at 50 SSP, 50 Kg of rice was sold at 9,000 SSP, it increased this year to 10,500 SSP among others.
Emmanuela John blamed Torit traders for continuous increase of prices which she worries will affect lives.
‘I am saying this product in the market everything is high even if you have five hundred South Sudanese Pounds, cannot buy good things that can help children to eat enough. So right now even oil half bottle is one hundred fifty South Sudanese Pound, everything in the market am seeing like meat, green vegetables all these things are too expensive’, she complained
Meanwhile John Mustafa Joseph Anthony, a trader at Torit market said prices of goods increase due to poor road and high taxation at checkpoints.
‘Actually the price change anytime it is first the problem is road are not okay and then the taxes most of the government take the taxes from the border and even within the municipal here. Really high prices is sometimes to discourage the business people, but traders are still motivated to discuss with them to explain to them about the issues of the products and why the goods to be high in the market’, he clarified.
Mercy Winiwa, a business woman said due to high demands of food commodities traders increase price.
She hopes that there is possibility of reducing the prices of goods to normal when the demand falls.
‘There is possibility for it this year at least the things to come down I can just say that at least they reduce this things because it is making most people to defeat them to buy this things because if you put things very high there are those people they don’t have money to buy at least what I can say they make this things to decrease so that other people manage to buy this things’, Winiwa encouraged.
Radio Emmanuel could not reach, Chamber of Commerce for comments.