NNA - Owners of bakeries across Lebanon on Thursday staged a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Economy to demand that wheat be secured for mills, and the price of bread bundles be set in proportion to the USD market exchange rate. 

The Secretary of Bakeries Owners’ Syndicate in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, Nasser Srour, said: "We suffer a big problem because it involves bread. The political class has closed most of the country's institutions and has no problem with us closing either." 

Moreover, Srour couldn’t help but wonder why the state hasn’t signed disbursing wheat credits after a period of two months. 

“We hope that the Minister of Finance will sign the credits so that people will not be humiliated,” he added. 

===============R.H.