The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Shop and Shopping Day recorded bumper sales as students constantly queued for hours to buy food items at affordable prices.

SRC President, Mr. Latif  Lawrence Jorhowie, cutting the tape to officially open the SRC Shop and Shopping Day

Some students patronising items on display at the event.

On display were rice, indomie noodles, cooking oil ,Tasty Tom tomato paste and Oba spaghetti.

Some of the students, who spoke to University reporters, said they were happy to get food items at moderate prices as compared to prices at Science market and lauded the SRC for the initiative.

Some students queuing  to buy  food items at moderate prices at the Shopping Day

They also appealed to the SRC to sustain the initiative and implored it to bring on board vegetables such as tomatoes, pepper, garden eggs, cabbage, cucumber, okro,carrot, among others.

 Taxis drivers on campus also reaped bountifully from the event, whilst transporting the purchased items of students to their residences.

The SRC Public Relations Officer, Mr. Enock Agyei, in an interview, said the aim of the event was to allow students to purchase food items at cheaper prices and commended them for the high patronage.

The SRC Public Relations Officer, Enock Agyei, addressing patrons of the event

He noted that the concerns of students about the sale of perishable farm produce were on the drawing board.

Mr. Agyei, however, called for partnership from farmers so that the SRC could purchase produce at farmgate price.