{"id":17300,"date":"2014-05-08T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=17300"},"modified":"2014-05-08T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:13:34","slug":"sachet-water-consumers-outraged-over-100-price-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/sachet-water-consumers-outraged-over-100-price-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachet water consumers outraged over 100% price increase"},"content":{"rendered":"
Residents in the Takyiman Municipality and its surrounding towns are angry over what they say is a hundred percent increment in the price of sachet water.<\/p>\n
The price of a bag of water which used to be sold at GHC 1.5pesewas now sells at GHC 3, with a sachet of water which used to be sold at 10 pesewas now selling at 20 pesewas, representing an increment of 100%.<\/p>\n
According to the people, despite the fact that cost of production has increased over time thereby putting a lot of pressure on the producers of sachet water, it is unacceptable to increase the price of water; an essential commodity\u00a0that should not be treated like any other commodity.<\/p>\n
The producers of sachet water in Takyiman who have the majority of producers in the Brong Ahafo region sell a bag of water between GHC 1 and GHC to consumers outside Takyiman.<\/p>\n
This is contrary to the price of the same product within the municipality; a situation the residents have described as discriminatory.<\/p>\n
They are therefore calling on producers of the product to revert to the old price .<\/p>\n
Although the secretary of the Sachet Water Producers Association Osei Effah had earlier denied the reports,\u00a0Citi\u00a0News <\/strong>checks revealed that the product was selling at the old price in the region apart from Takyiman and Sunyani.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Kwadwo Brefo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Residents in the Takyiman Municipality and its surrounding towns are angry over what they say is a hundred percent increment in the price of sachet water. The price of a bag of water which used to be sold at GHC 1.5pesewas now sells at GHC 3, with a sachet of water which used to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[428,429,62,427],"yoast_head":"\n