A visit to some hardware stores in the Municipality revealed that prices of nails, cement, paints and other building materials kept on increasing.

 At some of the major stores, the attendants told the GNA that a bag of cement which used to be sold at GHC27, was currently selling at GHC35.

The current market price of a small container of paint which used to be sold at GHC45 is currently selling at GHC52, while a box of four inches of nails is selling at GHC45. It used to be sold at GHC35.

     Mr Oyibo Umar of the Oyibo Umar Hardware, explained that the increment was effected last week and since then sales had gone down.