O'NEILL AND TOMSCOLL FORCING UP FOOD PRICES
Prime
Minister Peter O’Neill and Agriculture Minister Tommy Tomscoll are forcing up
the price of food so that more and more people cannot afford basic items such
as flour and rice and other imported items.
Even
prices of local foods are increasingly expensive.
The
proof - Bank of Papua New Guinea says food prices rose almost 25% in the 12
months to December 31 last year.
This
is more pain and suffering for the people because of the longlong policies,
waste corruption and mismanagement of O’Neill and his Government colleagues
like Tomscoll.
Tomscoll
as Minister for Agriculture is mainly to blame because of his ban on vegetable
imports in the middle of last year.
But
blame also is with O’Neill, whose reckless, wasteful and corrupt borrowings
have caused the kina’s value to crash, making all imported food more expensive.
In
its Monthly Economic Bulletin for January 2016, the central bank reports that fruit
and vegetable prices rose by 24.6%.
Cereal
prices rose by 10%, meat and fish prices rose 8.5% and miscellaneous food
prices rose by 3.9%
Overall,
the Food category rose by 11.8%.
This
means that while the Prime Minister builds showpiece monuments to himself in
Port Moresby, more and more people are going hungry.
On
top of that, the central bank reports that prices in the Medical and Health
Care category (excluding hospitals) rose 16.2%
http://www.bankpng.gov.pg/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2016029-MER-Report-Jan_2016.pdf