The Ghanaian government has finally given the
reason for locking Nigerian traders shops in West African
country.
retwtr.com recalls that the President of the Nigerian Traders
Union in Ghana, Chukwuemeka Nnaji, had disclosed that shops
owned by Nigerians in Accra, the Ghanaian capital were being locked
by the government as they demanded pieces of evidence of their
Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) registration. The
requirement for GIPC registration is $1 million minimum foreign
equity, while the registration fee is 31,500 cedis.
The President of the Nigerian Traders Union in Ghana said the
humiliation from the Ghanaian government has gotten to its height,
as he called on the federal government of Nigeria to come to their
aid.
However, in its reaction, the Ghanaian government has explained
why it has stopped Nigerian businesses from operating.
The Spokesman of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Boakye
Boateng, told a Ghanaian publication, Starr News in an interview
that the traders have been served notice for over a year now and
were pardoned in December by President Nana Akufo
Addo.
“It cannot be that we’ve been insensitive. If that is what
they’re saying, I’ll be disappointed because I’ll rather say they
have rather been unfair to us as a regulatory body because we have
given them more time than enough to the extent even the Ghanaians
thought that the ministry was not on their side or the ministry
wasn’t ready to even enforce law,” Boateng said.
So, it’s very surprising to me for them to say that we’ve
not given them enough time. If you recall as far back as December
last year, these shops were locked, the president intervened and we
asked that the shops be re-opened because the very law that gives
GUTA the right to be the sole traders in our market, that same law
requires that a certain group of people are those who can go and do
law enforcement and not you, so allow us to do our work.
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“They complied, the shops were opened. Since then we have
given them an opportunity to regularise the document and submit it
to us for verification, that has not been done. Now, this exercise
started from Abossey-Okai on Monday. Because we have never been to
Abossey-Okai for this exercise, when we went there we did not just
start locking shops. We went there, we inspected the shops and we
gave them notices that in 14-days they should ensure that all their
necessary documentations be complete. These people have been served
notices for over a year now.”
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