Ghanaian Actress, Writer and Producer Lydia Forson, has asked Ghanaians to avoid businesses that sell hand sanitizers at exorbitant prices in a bid to exploit the high demand for hand sanitizers due to the Coronavirus outbreak when the pandemic blows over.

She said that the shops must be named and shamed for openly taking undue advantage of the Ghanaian people at the moment when their loyalty was need led the most, elsewhere the health of the entire nation is at stake.

The prices of Hand sanitizers have doubled in the past six days following the astronomical rise in number of COVID-19 cases, as shops and pharmacies are looking to cash out big, feeding off the panic of Ghanaian citizens. Many celebrities have called out some of the businesses, and now Lydia Forson has called for future action when the pandemic finally passes on.

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She tweeted "Remember all the shops doing this and do not buy from them in the future. Let's name and shame them!"

Meanwhile, the President of Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Dr. Joseph Obeng has justified the price hikes saying there is nothing wrong with traders charging exorbitant fees on sanitizers.

"If you know what sales is, we have this theory of demand and supply. Normally the driving factor is there. If there is a shortage of goods, automatically prices go up, it’s a natural sequence so that one is not a deliberate measure by anybody,” he said.

He, however, advised the traders to make the product affordable for Ghanaians as a way of protecting the public against the virus.

“If the thing is available, you have to think about our own welfare that if we so punish the consuming populace and they do not have these to protect themselves, the ripple effect will come back to us. So whiles you are thinking about your profits, you also have to think about your own self and other people,” he said.