Foodstuffs in Sierra Leone are very expensive these days. One cannot use little money to buy plenty things. Prices on commodities are increasing daily. For example, a bag of rice is sold Le 580,000.
While palm oil is sold at Le 700,000, a price for a bag of sugar is sold around Le 750,000. Almost everything has shot up. This affects ordinary people in Sierra Leone. Poor people don’t have enough money because they don’t work. Jobs are not available that could employ thousands if not millions of people.
Most Sierra Leoneans depend on trading to make a survival. But, since prices of things have gone up, the cost of living becomes difficult for everyone.
Also, there is no price control in Sierra Leone. And because there is no price control on nutrients or foodstuffs, traders dictate the price on commodities, hence free market economy. Even the imported goods are expensive to afford by low –income earners.
Local foodstuffs are not produced in abundance in Sierra Leone like in the old days. All these combined factors have made things to become harder for Sierra Leoneans. And as inflation persists, the hard cost of living weighs high on Sierra Leoneans.
Aminata Kamara, a student at a college in Waterloo.