Tag: GUTA
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Be calm; Taskforce will lock up illegal foreign shops this month – GUTA urges traders
The Presidential Task force on Foreign Retail Trade set up by government to sanitize the country’s retail space is set to begin an exercise on August 10, to lock up foreign-owned retail shops whose operators do not have the requisite documents to do business in the country. This follows renewed tensions between Ghanaians and Nigerian…
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‘We deserve protection; our lives matter’ – Nigerian Retailers in Ghana cry out
The Nigerian Union of Traders in Ghana, NUTAG, says its members feel threatened by the recent actions of the Ghana Union of Traders Association, GUTA. A scuffle nearly ensued at the Tiptoe Lane in Accra last week, when some members of GUTA demonstrated against the continuous presence of foreigners in Ghana’s retail space particularly without…
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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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Mid-year Budget Review: Expand tax net to boost revenue – GUTA to Gov’t
The President of the Ghana Union of Traders, GUTA, Dr. Joseph Obeng, wants Government to use the Mid-year budget review as an opportunity to widen the country’s tax net to capture many more businesses to boost revenue generation. The emergence of the Coronavirus Covid-19 disease, has disrupted trading globally, and Ghana is no exception. From…
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Over 90% percent of foreign retailers have no permit to trade – GUTA
The Ghana Union of Traders Association, GUTA, says it will keep pushing to ensure that foreigners without the requisite documents to trade, are forced out of Ghana’s retail space. According to GUTA, majority of the over 600 shops they had locked up, have been forcibly reopened by the foreign retailers particularly Nigerians, against the orders…
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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…
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Nigerian retailers at Tip Toe Lane gear up for business after reopening of shops
Some Nigerians engaged in retail trade in Accra are in the process of resuming full operations following the reopening of their locked up shops after nearly 7 months. The Ghana Union of Traders of Association, GUTA, locked up the shops in protest against foreigners in retail trade which is unlawful under Ghana’s laws. The shops…
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21 Foreign-owned shops reopened at Tip-Toe Lane after verification of documents
Some Nigerian retailers who had their shops locked up by the Ghana Union of Traders, GUTA, have had them reopened after they provided legitimate documents allowing them to do business in the country. The shops were locked up nearly six months ago at Tip Toe Lane at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and Opera Square in…
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GUTA cautions Nigerian traders against re-opening locked up shops
The Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Joseph Osei Yaw Agyemang, has threatened that the Association will cause the arrest of any Nigerian trader who reopens any of the locked up shops at the Tip Toe lane in Accra. The warning comes after some three hundred of the six…
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Compensate importers for demurrage cost over UNIPASS challenges – GUTA to gov’t
The Ghana Union of Traders Association, GUTA, is asking government to engage shipping lines to waive charges on goods that may have passed their clearing dates due to unresolved technical issues with the UNIPASS system at the ports. Some freight forwarders at the Tema Port have in the past week complained about their inability to…