The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) on Friday launched investigations into the exploitative hikes in the prices of foodstuffs in OSUN state, with a view to bringing the high cost of foodstuffs and other consumption items in the state markets to a bearable level for the consumers.
The team of the FCCPC, which stormed the state, commenced with their findings at the two popular markets of Olufi and Ifon-Orolu trading places in Ayedaade and Orolu Local Government areas of Osun State, where they claimed, after their surveillance, that there had been a purported kind of conspiracy in the market, price gouging carried out by the market associations and unions to…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
