Tag: Tip Toe Lane
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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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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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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…