Tag: foreigners in retail trade
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41 shops of foreigners engaged in retail trade locked up at Suame Magazine
Forty-one shops belonging to some foreigners engaging in retail trade at the Suame Magazine Industrial area have been locked up. This was part of a nationwide exercise by the Committee on Foreigners in Retail Trade. The committee is undertaking the exercise following concerns by Ghanaian traders that some foreigners were in the retail space unlawfully.…
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GUTA suspends closure of foreign-owned retail shops after confusion at Tiptoe Lane
Tensions between Ghanaian and foreign retailers appear not be dying down anytime soon. A protest by the Ghanaian traders at Tiptoe Lane at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle on Friday, July 24, nearly led to a scuffle but for the intervention of police personnel and the President of Ghana Union of Traders’ Association, GUTA. The traders,…
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Close down illegal foreign retail shops at Circle or face our wrath – GUTA warns
The Ghana Union of Traders Association, GUTA, is demanding the immediate closure of all illegal foreign-owned retail shops that have been reopened for business at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. According to GUTA, most of the shops were only reopened by the presidential Committee on Foreign Retail Trade to inspect the documents of the…