Abu Salameh .. and the Dollar Coutume spoiled ✍️ Awad Allah Nawi
– In Sudan, the dollar is not only a bank note, it is similar to a heavy guest that the government cannot expel and cannot stay.
It was “Abu Salameh”, who exhausted the pockets and the patience of the Sudanese, which was classified by successive governments in categories because meat is classified on the butcher market: a customs dollar for costs and taxes, dollars, the problems emitted to the favorites of “senior markets, and the dollar of the black market.
A few days before the dissolution of the previous government, the customs dollar was stable at 2,167 pounds, then suddenly – as if the decision came from Jean -Belal’s office – had jumped at 2,400 pounds. The official account indicates that the government has approved it, but the question that insists on the mind: who really made this decision?
Was he issued by the Minister of Finance allocated to the issue before his departure from the Ministry? Or was it published during the period of the political emptiness that the country was experiencing, where the ministries were distributed “the cake of power” while an unknown employee alteration of the pockets of citizens?
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* The impact of the increase. The citizen pays the price alone *
The increase in customs dollar was not only a number on paper, but rather a bullet in the body of the exhausted economy. A product imported by $ 1,000, its costs are counted on the basis of 2.4 million pounds instead of 600,000 a few years ago … So how do prices not increase?
• Sugar, flour, oil and rice, their prices have jumped like crazy, because the importer only finds the pocket of the citizen to compensate for his losses.
• Building materials have doubled because the construction of a room has become a distant dream.
• Even the drug which is supposed to be a red line, has not escaped the effect of this increase.
– on the other hand, who took advantage of it? No one is only speculators and mediators who earn this price chaos, while the Sudanese citizen is the one who pays the complete bill.
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* Where is the Minister? *
Today, after the return of the Minister of Finance to his “spoiled” ministry, he has to face the question of the Sudanese street:
Are you going to continue the penetration policy of the Sudanese pocket to support the treasures of the government? Or are you going to take measures that will return to the dollar and reduce your stomach?
* If he is serious, he must start immediately: *
1. Review the price of the customs dollar and reduce the gap between it and the parallel market.
2. Merge export problems in an official unified market so that a game does not stay in the hands of adults.
3. Direct customs tasks to support the basic products, not the points of sale of the influence.
4. Implying the private sector in fixing prices to avoid sudden increases.
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*Conclusion*
Abu Sala’a Al -maddal has become an effort for this country, because it was not extended. The question to the minister who returned to his office today: do you have the courage to tame it? Or will you keep it as is … The flesh of the people is a ravaged piece?
