Gambia: Jimpex Middlemen Deny Inflating Prices of Building Materials –

By: Nicholas Bass

Scores of middlemen operating at Jimpex commercial hub have refuted allegations that they are behind the rising costs of building materials.

Instead, they claim that price hikes are caused by business owners and not by intermediaries.

Speaking in an interview with the Voice, the middlemen argue that they merely pass along prices given by the dealers and have no control over prices. They also pointed to internal business group chats among sellers as platforms where prices…