Views: Visits 9 By Ozioruva Aliu, Benin-City Prices of fishes have skyrocketed in Edo state as sellers have for the past three days refused to sell in protest of the activities of cold room owners and operators who they accused of arbitrary increase in the prices of fish, a more major protein source. They called on the state government to look into an alarming situation where every seller or provider of particular service to the people form unions to regulate prices of their commodities which they lamented that most times are to the detriment of the people. Fish sellers under the auspices of Traders’ Welfare Union of Nigeria drawn from several markets in Benin City who staged a peaceful protest in major streets stormed the secretariat of the Edo State Council secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ where they said a carton of fish which they used to buy N7,000 has within few years skyrocketed to N37,000, stressing that this has made fish
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