Bishop Fagbohun berates ekiti govt over inflation claims says economic hardship in ekiti persists
By Idowu Adebomi, Ado Ekiti The Presiding Bishop of the Old Catholic Apostolic Church, Nigeria, Most Rev. Oluwaseun Raphael Fagbohun, PhD, has faulted claims by the Ekiti State Government that food prices and inflationary pressures have eased in the state, describing such assertions as misleading and unsupported by official data. Bishop Fagbohun made the remarks on Thursday in Ado-Ekiti during a clergy meeting, while reacting to recent statements credited to the Ekiti State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Ebenezer Boluwade. The commissioner had claimed that food prices had declined following interventions by Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji’s administration in the agricultural sector. The cleric, however, insisted that available statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) contradict the government’s position, urging state authorities to refrain from what he termed propaganda and misinformation. According to the latest NBS figures, Ekiti State has consist...
