ECOWAS warns Ghana over foreign traders


  1. Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    The ECOWAS Parliament has indicated it will still go ahead with its intervention to halt the removal of foreigners in retail markets, despite the trade ministry's plan to go ahead with the exercise. But Deputy Speaker at the ECOWAS Parliament, Michael Teye Nyaunu said Ghana must be mindful of the implications of their action.
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    He added that, in as much as the regional legislative body could not dictate to the West African country, he was advising that more sensitization and education be carried out on the exercise so as to prevent a looming trade war between Ghana and her ECOWAS neighbours.

    Ghana’s Trade Minister, Hannah Tetteh at a press conference last week indicated that a request from the ECOWAS Parliament for the suspension of the exercise could not be granted.

    She stated that Ghana Investment Promotion Council (GIPC) Act, which allowed the removal of the foreign retail traders from markets, was in conformity with the ECOWAS Protocol adding that the ECOWAS Parliament did not have executive authority in any member state.

    The ministry is expected to begin an exercise from Tuesday to remove non-Ghanaians engaged in retail business at market centres which are reserved for indigenes.

    Diplomatic ties

    It would be recalled that the Nigerian House of Representatives, weekend, called for the intervention of Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, parliament to prevent deportation of Nigerian businessmen from Ghana.

    Chairman of the Diaspora Committee of the House of Representatives, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa last month led a lobby team to the ECOWAS parliament to appeal for its intervention.

    Dabiri-Erewa, who also led the delegation to the Nigerian House of Representatives Speaker, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu on the situation in Ghana, urged him to intervene in the matter to halt the deportation or the Nigerian government might consider breaking diplomatic ties with that country.


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