Tip-toe lane Traders accuse AMA for influx of illegal retail trade
Accra, Feb. 16, 2012
Ghanaian traders at the tip-toe lane in Circle are accusing the Accra Metropolitan Assembly for encouraging foreigners to engage in retail business.
President of the circle Tip-toe lane Traders Association (TTA), Joseph Osei Agyeman, claims officials from AMA collect monies from foreign traders after creating space for them to sell there.
The local traders are agitated over what they see to be the refusal of Authorities to prevent foreigners from engaging in retailing reserved for Ghanaian.
The problem is brewing tension among the Ghanaian traders and their foreign counterparts.
Coupled with their aborted demonstration, and brutalities visited on a member of theirs, the local traders association now sees it as an attempt to encourage the illegality.
The foreign traders who trade their goods on the fringes of the road are mostly Nigerians who deal in cell phones and accessories, used clothing, used computers and footwear.
Some of the foreign traders e.business news spoke to seemed not to be aware of the law that required foreign companies and individual business men seeking to enter the retail business to pay$300,000 to $1 million.
The law has in recent years has threatened Ghana’s trade relations with Nigerian traders who believe it is discriminatory and unfair.
However, some of the traders whom e. business spoke to have agreed to stop their retailing business if they are officially told to do so.
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