Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, has asked members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) to tread cautiously in attempting to remove foreigners from Ghana’s retail markets.
The ministry, in a release signed by its acting Chief Director, Ebenezer Padi Adjirackor, and issued in Accra Wednesday, said it had suspended the exercise of removing foreigners from Ghana’s markets in order “to intensify sensitization and education in the domestic retail trade sector”.
GUTA members were angered by the failure of the minister to meet them in strategising towards the removal of so-called foreigners engaging in retail from Ghana’s markets.
But the minister’s statement explained that the suspension of the ban is to help them intensify sensitization and education in the domestic retail trade sector.
“The ministry, however, demands the cooperation of the trading community and the general public in this regard,” the statement said.
The ministry had given notice to all foreign retailers to vacate the country’s retail markets by 27 July 2018 or face sanctions.
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