Local Bread Producers Protest Over High Flour Price

Hundreds of producers of local bread, popularly known as Gurasa, have protested the rise in price of flour in the country saying it is threatening their business.

The producers, mostly women, took to the streets in the ancient city of Kano on Friday to express their anger over the incessant rise in price of flour.

The local bread that sold for a little less than N100 a few months back now sells for not less than N200 per pie.

Leading the protest, leader of Gurasa Bakers Association of Kano, Hajiya Fatima Awwal said the rise in price of flour was threatening a closure of their clusters of the micro industry, a situation that will not only worsen hunger, but also increase unemployment.

She explained that in the past, they buy a bag of IRS flour at the rate of N16,000 which currently sells for N43,000.