{"id":20160,"date":"2017-12-25T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T09:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2017-12-25T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T09:30:59","slug":"priest-community-leader-condemn-hike-product-prices-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/priest-community-leader-condemn-hike-product-prices-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest, Community Leader Condemn Hike In Product Prices, Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. \u00a0Gabriel Fatoye, has criticised some retailers and service providers for deliberating increasing prices of products and services during the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">Fatoye, an Associate Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Odogunyan, Ikorodu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">The priest said that such acts of extortion were against the spirit of the season, which is generosity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cRetailers who deliberately hike the prices of products and service providers who use the Christmas season to extort people are getting involved in profiteering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cBiblically, the birth of Christ symbolises hope for God\u2019s people; Christmas is therefore a time to remember the needy and not to seek double profit, at the expense of the common man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cAny businessman that believes that Christmas is a time to take more than required from customers should be described as wicked and an anti-Christ entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cChristmas is a time of giving and those who want to be seen abiding by the spirit of the season should give out more than they aspire to get back,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">Similarly, a Community Leader, Alhaji Saheed Yusuf, also criticised traders that unduly doubled their profits, saying that, \u201c they were worsening the hardship of Nigerians\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">Yusuf, the Chairman of Igba-Otun Community Development Area in Ikorodu, said \u00a0that the hike in prices during the season had become a norm in the country, adding that such tendency had also worsened the nation\u2019s inflationary trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cYou hear in the news of companies in Europe and the U.S. giving away gifts to their customers and sometimes reducing the prices of their products to attract more patronage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cBut here, what we see is an almost general increase in prices and even the so-called bonanzas are really not so in the actual sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u201cOur businessmen require a radical reorientation on sales during this time, with a view to projecting a customer-friendly relationship and also finding a way to appreciate them for their patronage,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"m_2594417425120501354ydp51b7e75MsoNormal\">\u2014-NAN<\/div>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic Priest, Rev. 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