Ogun to begin 50% discount on rice

Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun has promised to begin the sale of rice to residents at half the price of the commodity to cushion the economic hardship in the country.

Abiodun said this on Wednesday, March 27, during the Special Iftar (breaking of fast) organised for the League of Imams and Alfas in the state at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta.

He said: “We have decided to commence the sale of rice. We will be selling it at the rate of 50% of the price.

“We are going to commence with our civil servants.

“All our public servants across the board will buy rice at half the price.

“What is the reason behind selling to them? What we are trying to do is put them in the position they were before the inflation.

“The purchasing power that they seem to have lost because of inflation, we are putting them back in that position.”