Do you know that hike in price of staple foods is not because the bakers want to make excessive gains but because the cost of production has skyrocketed?
Staple foods have become so expensive these days, that you will have to do much calculation and scaling to buy food items.
Those in baking business are not finding it interesting any longer. 
BreadIn the past few months, prices of baking materials have shifted north, forcing the cost of bread up also.
Now, bakers want the prices of production materials brought down so that Nigerians can still afford bread.
Food is important for the body and soul of every human being, without food life would be unbearable.
Unfortunately making food available is becoming a huge task for one of the associations responsible for putting bread on the tables of Nigerians.
It is at this point lamenting how expensive production materials have become.
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Calling on government for intervention, the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria, wants regulation of prices of baking materials.
The group, in a statement by the national president, Man sir Umar, said members have consistently made efforts to ameliorate the situation of cost of production and baking materials in the markets.
“I must commend our members who complied with the withdrawal of service actions and also urge non-compliant ones to desist from the association activities as it will collectively hamper our working progress.
Umar, said bread had become a major staple food for most Nigerian households, irrespective of social standing.
He said any hindrance towards its production could affect the country’s economy adversely.
The group said: “There is no way we can produce a NAFDAC quality standard product and still sell at the old price in the market.
“We haven’t relented in advancing the causes of our industry through various government and private sector engagement.
“We are in a new dawn of a new government and have written several letters to the new government highlighting our challenges and proffering solutions”.
According to Umar, cost of bread production ingredients have been steadily rising.
This is at a time when the government has increased electricity tariff and price of petroleum products.
Should we then believe that the government is out to starve the poor masses?
The group called on president Bola Tinubu, to come to their rescue by looking into the increase in the prices of the essential material.
The communique read: “That the federal government and state should order a stop of multiple revenue/taxation policies which is suffocating the bakery industry.
“The national executive council meeting (NEC) appealed to the Federal Government to implement the palliative scheme to our ailing bakery industry which has witnessed closure of over 30% of our members, since the removal of petroleum subsidy.
“This closure has caused loss of jobs for over five million Nigerians engaged in our industry”.
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However, the group urged Bakers to try to maintain NAFDAC standard for quality irrespective of the current challenges of skyrocketing costs of production.
They called on the Federal Government to intervene in the incessant increase of flour and sugar just like it recently did in the cement industry.
“This is more important because food is the first law of nature as it affects preservation of life,” the group emphasised.
