Rabat – After a controversy for prices, Moroccan activists for social media demand a campaign to boycott sardines during the holy month.
The campaign is carried out after the authorities in Marrakech reported that a young man’s business had closed, in which fish were sold at the lowest prices compared to others on the market.
When the business was closed, the local authorities said that Abdelilah, the owner, did not keep his products under the necessary hygienic conditions.
But social activists who selected #خليه_يخناز (let es fist) as hashtag of their boycott believes that Abdelilah has revealed the truth of the dishonest manipulation of the fish prices of the intermediate by the middlemen.
Abdelilah, also known as Abdo or “Moul Lhout” (fish seller) among internet users, said Yesterday in a video that he goes through a violent campaign and an overload of pressure from people, the interests of which are conflict with his initiative.
As a controversy, the ministry responsible for the fish industry does not remain any official statements in order to give a clear idea of what is going on in history of contradictory fish prices.
A heated debate is circulate Accompanied by a tractor of the war on social media via fish prices. Some claim that Abdo loses profit from the sale of fish at lower prices and compensates for this by Tikok and other social media platform gains.
Others believe that Moul Lhout presented the dishonested manipulation of the prices of the middlemen.
Against the background of these intensive controversy, some Moroccan Social Media activists demand a campaign to boycott fish from the first day of Ramadan.
The Wali of Marrakech orders the publication of Abdelilahs Fisch
The governor of Marrakech, Farid Chourak, ordered the release of Abdelilah “Moul El Hout”, who received the young man in his office to let him know that he can reopen his shop and resume his activities.
Marrakech also Wali paved The way for Abdo to return to the wholesale market in the city.
Converge reports stated that the governor assured the young fish provider who revealed the extent of the controversy that increase the prices for fish that he could personally contact him if he was exposed to harassment.
Abdelilah appeared In a video surrounded by the citizens on the way back with its fish stock to reopen his shop, said: “The Wali said to me that I should give the” poor “fish.”
The question remains: did Abdelilah win the manipulation of fish prices by the middleman by the middleman?
Views of the citizens to the controversy of the fish price
Morocco World News (MWN) approached a fish maker on the Central Market of Rabat and asked him about the ongoing controversy for fish prices.
The MAD 5 price applies to a kind of sardines of low quality, said the provider. Add This Abdo “sold the sardines at the lowest prices without profit, but he compensated this by selling a similar way in Calamari that demands the actual price of the fish.”
A citizen who was on the market to buy sardines said in an interview with MWN: “We know that fish prices in Morocco are subject to supply and demand, but the officials should take the initiative to regulate the manipulation of fish prices.”
Officials “should interfere in order to make the actual prices for fish clear to the citizens,” he added, referring to the recent explanations in which the federation of the fishing wheels asked their members to further reduce their prices.
While the official price for one kilo sardine is 15 dirhams, customers sometimes pay up to 25 dirham for a kilo of the fish of the so -called poor man.
The fish dealer said that today’s price for sardines on the market is crazy for a kilo, while the citizen confirmed MWN that he bought a kilo for MAD 25.
Abdellatif Saadouni, President of the National Confederation of Fish wholesale, said in an interview with the Moroccan channel 2m that the price of sardines on the Mad 6 wholesale market was, and added that their responsibility stops selling individual dealers.
Saadouni also found that the officers should take steps and change the advantages and disadvantages of prices, which should be between 6 and 7 dirhams if they achieve the final goal.
The controversy for fish prices has caused many citizens to satisfy concerns about the role of the government in the regulation and monitoring of goods prices in the markets.
