Hoarding Wheat
during Ramadan no less, how mean
It was probably these two who did the same thing last year and there was no penality then: “We cannot force them to market the discovered flour without the cooperation of the other concerned authorities, especially the Ministry of The Interior, the public prosecutors, and judiciary authorities,” said al-Kumaim.
SANA’A, NewsYemen
The daily report of Operations Room in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, issued Wednesday, said that the field committees to supervise prices stability had found that two merchants monopolize a huge quantity of wheat and flour.
It said the two businessmen Al-Kaboos and Fahim had closed their stores, which are full of wheat and flour, against citizens while the local markets are witnessing a sharp shortage of these two food materials and an awful price increase.
The report, NewsYemen got a copy, said the committees could also during its field inspection to seize some violations in Hamadan district of Sana’a included decreasing the size of wheat and flour bags and selling pesticides in some public shops, in addition to 40 infringements related prices of some commodities.
The report said such breaches had been raised to the governor of Sana’a province to take the penal measures against those monopolize foods and make crises.
The report said that three trucks belong to the Yemeni Economic Corporation has unloaded tons of wheat and sold it to people in Shamlan and Al-Lakmah in Sana’a with the official price YR 3700.
