Mahama’s Economy Judged in Bolga Market

On Monday, I went to the Bolga Market. While I waited for some food items I had ordered from a nearby shop to arrive, the owner of the retail shop I was buying from and the man I had gone shopping with struck up a conversation about the prices of food items.

A 50-kilogram bag of a rice brand from Burkina Faso, which used to sell for GHS 700, now goes for GHS 480. A certain cooking oil brand is sold for GHS 120. It used to be GHS 200, they said. A bag of maize is now sold at GHS 500, down from GHS 900.

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“If this should continue until 2028, then we, the NPP, will not have a campaign message. Food is all that some people need,” the man I had gone shopping with said.

Amen, I said in my head, happy to have witnessed the tumbling of prices correspond with the falling inflation figures.

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