The Premium Breadmakers Association of Nigeria, which represents bread bakers, has announced that it will stop all bread manufacturing nationwide starting this Thursday (today) due to an unjustified increase in the cost of producing its products.
The group announced this in a statement that was penned by its president, Emmanuel Onuorah, who bemoaned the fact that running a bakery in Nigeria had become nearly difficult due to the constant increases in the costs of diesel and baking supplies, which had a negative impact on them.
Onuorah said in a statement that the tough conditions bakeries were operating under to make bread were no longer sustainable and that’s why they planned to go on strike for four days and prolong it if nothing was done to change things.
Onuorah, therefore, stated that “to ensure the survival of the premium bread-making industry in Nigeria, we have decided to embark on a withdrawal of services beginning from Thursday 21st of July, 2022 for four days in the first instance and where there is no intervention from the government, we shall escalate the duration of the withdrawal”.
He continued, “The reasons for the withdrawal of services included an incessant increase in the price of baking materials, Federal Government’s 15 per cent wheat development levy on wheat import, NAFDAC’s N154,000 penalty charged for late renewal of certificates, the inability of its members to access grants and soft loans being given by the Central Bank of Nigeria to Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises and multi-agencies regulation of the bread-making industry.”
The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria announced in June that it will go on a two-week strike in protest of increased baking ingredient costs.
The Premium Breadmakers Association of Nigeria, which represents bread bakers, has announced that it will stop all bread manufacturing nationwide starting this Thursday (today) due to an unjustified increase in the cost of producing its products.
The group announced this in a statement that was penned by its president, Emmanuel Onuorah, who bemoaned the fact that running a bakery in Nigeria had become nearly difficult due to the constant increases in the costs of diesel and baking supplies, which had a negative impact on them.
Onuorah said in a statement that the tough conditions bakeries were operating under to make bread were no longer sustainable and that’s why they planned to go on strike for four days and prolong it if nothing was done to change things.
Onuorah, therefore, stated that “to ensure the survival of the premium bread-making industry in Nigeria, we have decided to embark on a withdrawal of services beginning from Thursday 21st of July, 2022 for four days in the first instance and where there is no intervention from the government, we shall escalate the duration of the withdrawal”.
He continued, “The reasons for the withdrawal of services included an incessant increase in the price of baking materials, Federal Government’s 15 per cent wheat development levy on wheat import, NAFDAC’s N154,000 penalty charged for late renewal of certificates, the inability of its members to access grants and soft loans being given by the Central Bank of Nigeria to Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises and multi-agencies regulation of the bread-making industry.”
The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria announced in June that it will go on a two-week strike in protest of increased baking ingredient costs.
