The Northern Regional capital, Tamale has been hit by cement shortage.<\/p>\n
This comes at the back of Citi Business News<\/strong> hint last week of a nationwide shortage of the cement product.<\/p>\n Some major cement retailers in Tamale Township including Aspet and Yaamusah companies limited have empty warehouses.<\/p>\n Not considering the shortage, the price of cement within a space of 12 hours skyrocketed from GHC28 to GHC35 in Tamale Township.<\/p>\n The new price is fixed for any brand be it GHACEM, Diamond or the imported Chinese cement.<\/p>\n Managing Director of Aspet Company Limited in Kukuo, Nyarko Emmanuel in a Citi Business News<\/strong> interview said the shortage had adversely affected his business.<\/p>\n According to him, customers who got astonished by the new price either turned away or deposited for small quantities.<\/p>\n Some frustrated cement consumers and retailers who gathered at the Aspet Company Limited bemoaned the situation and called for government\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n Equally, some tenants got alarmed by the situation and anticipated increment in rent.<\/p>\n They said it would overburden their harsh living conditions and added their voice to calls on duty bearers to take quick action.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Northern Regional capital, Tamale has been hit by cement shortage. This comes at the back of Citi Business News hint last week of a nationwide shortage of the cement product. Some major cement retailers in Tamale Township including Aspet and Yaamusah companies limited have empty warehouses. Not considering the shortage, the price of cement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}