Ghana: Don’t Abandon Introducing Cement Pricing Li!

One cannot but describe as good the attempt by the Trade and Industry Minister, KT Hammond, to make the government introduce a legislation to control the pricing of cement to protect consumers from “haphazard” increment in prices by manufacturers.

It is, however, unfortunate that his attempt to submit the Legislative Instrument (LI) to Parliament on Wednesday was blocked for lack of consultation.

We think that being a legislator himself, Mr Hammond should have gone through the necessary steps in…