Me ya sa farashin fetur ke kara farashin abinci kamar tumatir?
Ka yi tunanin matar da take sayar da tumatir a Mile 12. Manomin yana biyan kuɗin makamashi don noma su, wata mota kuma tana ɗauko su daga gona, wata babbar mota kuma tana kawo su nisan ɗaruruwan kilomita zuwa Legas, sannan ɗan kasuwan yana biyan kuɗin sufuri, mai sayarwa kuma yana biya kuma. Zuwa lokacin da wannan tumatir ya isa wurin wata uwa da take shirya abincin dare, mai man fetur mai tsada ya shiga cikin farashin sau da yawa.
An fassara amsoshin da ke wannan shafin daga Turanci ta hanyar na'ura kuma fassarar bata riga ta bi ta hannun mai fassara ba.
Inda wannan ya fito
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A Nigerian earning the ₦70,000 statutory minimum wage requires ₦56,000 merely to buy 40 litres of petrol at ₦1,400 per litre. That is 80 per cent of an entire month’s minimum wage. Before that worker buys food, pays rent, electricity, school fees or medical bills, four-fifths of his monthly wage can disappear into just 40 litres of petrol.
Meanwhile, citizens of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE generally earn vastly more while paying less per litre. That is the human face missing from your economic argument.
And the pain does not end at the petrol station. Take the woman selling tomatoes at Mile 12. The farmer pays for energy to cultivate. A vehicle moves the tomatoes from the farm. Another truck carries them hundreds of kilometres to Lagos. The wholesaler pays transport. The retailer pays transport again. By the time those tomatoes reach the mother preparing dinner, expensive fuel has entered the final price several times over.