Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, a leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has blamed Ghanaian traders for the rising inflation in the country.
Speaking on Town Hall Talk on Asaase, the cousin of President Akufo-Addo wondered how a plantain bought at Kintampo for GHS50 can be resold at Accra for as high as GHS450 or GHS500.
He wondered if the plantain was tranported by a private jet.
“What explains that you can buy a bunch of plantain at Kintampo or wherever it comes from at Ghc50 and then when it gets to Accra it is Ghc450 or Ghc500?” mynewsgh reported Gabby.
He continued: “there is some artificial element to it. Are you saying that we have seen the price of fuel go up 500%, 600%? No. It hasn’t happened” he stressed.
“We in Ghana … we believe in Ghana that it [inflation] is artificial…. in a sense you cannot explain to me why you buy plantain for Ghc50 [and sell for Ghc500] why are you using a private jet to transport from Kintampo to Accra?” He asked.
“My understanding is that government must find a way to tackle it. We need to inject some form of reality into the market without touching the market. If you have a situation where you can mobilize the trucks to go and bring the goods to the market queens…. this will ensure the real market price is there so that some people don’t take undue advantage of inflation to turn it into some form of hyperinflation which we will all suffer from.”
