TAWAU: The authorities have been urged to intensify their monitoring and enforcement on greedy traders who raise prices at will.
Kalabakan member of parliament Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh said traders who increased the prices according to their fancy should be penalized.
“I received a report that there were goods with a 40 per cent price hike or more, including in the district,” he said yesterday.
“Though some say the case started from middleman, what is important is that monitoring and enforcement should be intensified,” he said.
He said he had received many complaints from the public about price hikes which indirectly affected the good name of Barisan Nasional (BN).
“Some say, after the election, all the prices of goods went up. This is not good for BN. Therefore, we want the relevant agencies to intensify enforcement,” he said.
He also called on the public to use their right as consumers to boycott unscrupulous traders.