Findings have shown that Ose Okwodu food stuff market at Onitsha still records normal movement of people and normal patronage barely two weeks to Christmas celebration.
ABS reporter Esther Asoanya who went on survey of prices of food commodities in the market reports that while there is an increase in the prizes of some commodities, there is also reduction in prices of some others.
At the rice section, a dealer, Mr. Vitus Umezinwa said there is reduction in price of rice as a bag of quality local rice which was formerly sold between one hundred and ten thousand naira now sells between ninety and ninety-five thousand.
Similarly, a bag of beans which was formerly sold between two hundred and seventy thousand naira and two hundred and eighty thousand naira is now sold between ninety-five thousand naira and two hundred thousand naira.
At vegetable oil section, Mr. Uchenna Okeakpu said there is a high increase in price of vegetable oil, as ten litres of which was formerly sold at seventeen thousand naira now sold at forty-five thousand naira while palm oil which was formerly sold at thirty-two thousand naira now goes for fifty-four thousand naira.
According to report, the prize of onions also recorded very sharp increase.
