Currency brokers raise prices in Aden ... Citizens looking for "legitimacy"
English - Tuesday 21 January 2020 الساعة 02:48 pm
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Food and consumer prices in Aden Governorate, southern Yemen, rose suddenly to record records at the beginning of the new year, to create a new burden on the citizen.
Shukri Al-Shaibani, spoke to Newsyemen a cafeteria owner in Aden, saying that "the high prices have had a great impact on us at work, we are unable to convince the customer that every day there is a different price from the day before, and there is no solution except by returning old prices, so that we can work and provide customers' orders. "
Meanwhile, Amer Abdulwsder, the owner of a home appliance store, indicated that the movement in the labor market is almost dead, adding, "It was the collapse of the currency that led to the crazy rise in prices."
He added: We buy from the merchant in hard currency, so the high currency exchange will govern you to raise prices, and we are watching the exchange rate rise with great concern.
In turn, the citizen Mukhtar Ali Muhammad says that the high prices have formed a very big pressure factor on the simple citizen with limited income.
He said: "months ago I was taking the month's requirements for my family at a cost of 30,000 riyals. As for this month, this amount is no longer sufficient, pointing out that this serious harm reflects the absence of state agencies and the absence of control of the authority in this regard, which affects the citizen directly.
As for the citizen Ayman Hazza, he said with indignation: May God reward the Yemeni people with the collapse of the currency. Its collapse has caused unreasonably and unacceptably high prices.
He added: "I went to buy a chair from a wholesale store. He told me the price is 3500 riyals, and the next day I went back to take it and found the price of 4000 riyals.
He stated that the analyst invoked the rise of the foreign currency, especially the dollar and the Saudi, against the local currency.
He continued: "Even the owner of the grocery store, I buy a manga bottle from him for 170 riyals, and the second day he sells it to me for 220 riyals, meaning the Saudi riyal rises and the merchants raise the commodity for fifty riyals."
Sabri Abu Radwan, a seller of a wholesale store, says that the reason for the high prices is due to the economic war waged by the Houthi militia by preventing the circulation of the new currency and withdrawing foreign currencies from the market.
