An onion bag that used to be sold at GHS1,300 is now five bags being sold at GH¢150 due to the Benin border closure.
Due to the closure of the Benin border, over 500 sacks of onion have reportedly gone bad in the Ashanti region.
The onion sellers, according to citinewsroom reports, have been forced to dispose of the rotten onions or sell them at reduced prices
The truck drivers conveying the onions said they could not cross the Benin border with their fully loaded trucks of onions and other foodstuff due to the political tension in Niger.
While speaking to some of the Onion sellers, they lamented their losses is already running into several millions of Ghana cedis
Another seller while lamenting expressed worry over her losses, She said while approaching the market, you will be welcomed with stench from the spoilt Onions due to our inability to get here on time as a result of the border closure. She Noted that their losses is too much hence, We are calling on the government to come to our aid because it is affecting us. We pay taxes,” she cried
According to a truck driver Seidu sule while speaking said “We spent almost ten days at the Benin border, so the onions have all gone bad. Onions start to go bad within four days he said. The Ghana Ambassador came to intervene, which is why we were allowed to pass through the border, but it was too late. We have lost a lot of money. About 220 bags of onions have all gone bad he said.
