SAN FRANCISCO, August 17, (THEWILL) – The Ghanaian Ministry of Trades has dismissed claims of unfair treatment by Nigerian traders in the country; insisting that they were given enough time to comply with the Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) laws.
Speaking on the incident on a radio station, Star FM, the Head of Communications, Ministry of Trade, Prince Boakye Boateng, said that Nigerian traders failed to honour an ultimatum to meet the requirements to regularise their documents for verification.
Boateng said “It cannot be we’ve been insensitive; if that is what they’re saying, I’ll be disappointed because I’ll rather say they have 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 even on their side or the ministry wasn’t ready to even enforce the law.”
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He recalled that the shops were locked last December and later re-opened following the intervention of President Nana Akufo-Ado. According to him, the traders complied but have not regularized their documents for verification.
The Spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, said the Nigerian mission in Accra was yet to send a formal report on the harassment of the traders to the ministry.
