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Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by 15Ebisco: 2:39pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Delegations of National Association of Nigerian Traders in Ghana (NANTS) and Nigerian Union of Traders Association, Ghana (NUTAG) on Tuesday stormed Abuja, the nation’s capital to protest against continuous locking of over 400 Nigerian shops in Ghana by the Ghanaian authority. A protest petition which was addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari was received by Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora in Abuja. Presenting the petition, Barrister Ken Ukaoha, NANTS President-General, lamented that the discrimination against Nigerian traders in Ghana dated back to 2007 when they were subjected to paying exorbitant taxes geared towards ruining their businesses. According to him, the Ghanaian authorities passed a law which compels all foreigners to have a minimum of $300,000 USD in 2007 and later increased it to $1 million USD in 2018 as minimum capital to start a business in Ghana. He opined that Nigerian traders were specifically targeted as over 400 shops belonging to Nigerians were locked up since July 27, 2018 till date despite their various appeals to the appropriate authorities. Ukaoha said under ECOWAS protocol which Ghana was a signatory, Nigerians should not be branded as foreigners but a community citizen as long as they are carrying ECOWAS passport. Regrettably, he said a Nigerian, Mrs Stella Upaleke, had committed suicide, because of the huge bank debts the closure had caused her and still in the mortuary in Ghana. He said despite the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari who took up the matter with his Ghanaian counterpart, President Nana Akufo-Addo on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York, with a promise that the shops will be re-opened, they have remained shut down. “The diplomatic relations between the two countries is being threatened with this Ghana behaviour as they are playing politics with means of livelihood of Nigerians in Ghana. “We have over two million Ghanaians in Nigeria and Nigeria has been treating them well. We had petitioned the National Assembly and ECOWAS on this matter as law abiding citizen who didn’t want to take laws into our hands’’, he said. Corroborating, Chief Emeka Nnaji, President of NUTAG said that Nigerian goods worth billions of dollars are being locked up with sizeable number of it as perishable. “We are living in palpable fear in Ghana as they are after our lives. We were beaten and tortured in Ashante region while incredible taxes are imposed on us in order to cripple our businesses’’, he lamented. Dabiri-Erewa while responding on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari commended them for the mature way the matter was handled and assured them of delivering the petition to the President. Dabiri-Erewa in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Wednesday by her Media Assistant, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, while responding, said she was worried that despite the assurance of President Nana Akufo Addo of Ghana to President Muhammadu Buhari that the shops will be re-opened, and despite an instruction to reopen the shops on Sept 27, the shops still remain closed. She said, “Let me advise you to continue to be good ambassadors of Nigeria despite provocation. Don’t even think about retaliation as Ghanaians are our brothers”. The Presidential aide, who commiserated with the family of the deceased Nigerian trader who committed suicide, led others to observe a minute of silence in honour of the deceased. https://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/10/nigerians-petition-buhari-over-locked.html
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by hisexcellency34: 2:41pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Better petition Atiku so your shops can be opened by May 2019. If you wait for Buhari, your shops will remain under lock till 2023. Buhari doesn't have your time 58 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Josh44s(m): 2:42pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Just imagine how Ordinary Ghana is treating us. Federal Govt can’t even defend Nigerians living in Ordinary Ghana! Whose GDP is not even up to Ekiti State let alone Delta. Oh my Gawd! 73 Likes 6 Shares
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by badmrkt(m): 2:42pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
no be Buhari wey we know. them dey waste dia time. they better manage till Atiku comes in next. they'd be heard. 29 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Nobody: 2:42pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by BruncleZuma: 2:42pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
What make him do?! |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by tizzdi(m): 2:42pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by MrTAnonymous(m): 2:42pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
okay... |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Eberechi24(f): 2:43pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Do me, I do you. Man no go vex. they should thank God them never send them back with Nigeria must go bag. Seriously, I feel for them. Something should be done to support these people. Ghana pls give them time to switch to another business/ alternate means of survive. it's not their fault for craving for greener pastures. it's not their fault for having a failed government. 4 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by InfinixMine: 2:43pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
HA! |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by alphaconde(m): 2:44pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
after the memories of ghana must go that will never go away, the nigerian government and people should be ashamed of themselves. in case its not clear yet this simply means that ghana is gradually rising above us since our business men now go there to do business. lets just come back home and think about our lives. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by diehard1: 2:44pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
$1m as minimum base to start business and they are still going to an African country.? 12 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by breakeven: 2:44pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Those involved are they Fulani? If not then forget it. You are on your own. 18 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by wwwtortoise(m): 2:44pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
The whites discriminate through racism What do we now call this huh? The blackman is the greatest enemy of his kind; argue with your village people. 10 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by maestroferdi: 2:44pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
You never see anything... Buhari will brand the Nigerians drug peddlers and criminals... 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Araoluwa005(m): 2:44pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
they should all come home 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Pavore9: 2:45pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Nothing much will come out of it 5 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by sanandreas(m): 2:46pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by youngdroly(m): 2:46pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Ghana dey prepare to do their own Nigerians must go... 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Kerry111: 2:46pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
GHANA!!! HMMMM..... THE GIANT OF AFRICA HAS SUFFERED 1 Like |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Nobody: 2:46pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
what can he do? he is not the president of Ghana. |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by patogist: 2:46pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Una no go Ghana must go back in the 90s? You better comeback home and send Buhari packing. |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Realisticallyme: 2:46pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Funny, how can u petition a lifeless man that knows nothing about economics. A man that does nt read d newspapers. If this petition was about cows welfare, they should expect presidential directives immediately. But since it’s about Nigerians welfare. Kai banza. 11 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by nabegibeg: 2:47pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by SIRTee15: 2:48pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
I think it's a matter of Ghana protecting its local retail for her citizens... It's a common practice all over the world... Even USA is fighting Hb1 visa because they feel the visa puts American cutizens at a disadvantage compared to immigrants... ECOWAS is useless anyway n will do nothing... Most west African countries run an uninspiring restrictive n protective economy where they use every opportunity to tax the hell out of foreigners.... 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Barnext(m): 2:48pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Home Is Better O, Leave Dat Selfish Country!! |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Melison(m): 2:49pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Ghana?? If we don't wake up small time all these Niger,Chad and some other small countries go soon start give us trouble oo 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Kwamecron(m): 2:49pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Kingosytex(m): 2:50pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
africans are the greatest enemies of "africans" from the xenophobic attacks in SA to this unrest in ghana, why all these commotions? trust me, buhari aint gonna do anything, he is more concerned and planning on how to successfully rig himself to power in next year's election 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by marriedtome(m): 2:51pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
The only solution is retaliation, Ghanaians in Nigerians should made to feel the heat!!! kill them one by one. let's colonize Ghana and make it our 37th state. |
Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Lopon1(m): 2:52pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
Pls don't disturb buhari's sleep 1 Like
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Re: Nigerians Petition Buhari Over Locked Shops In Ghana by Icon4s(m): 2:52pm On Oct 10, 2018 |
If u guys think Buhari will do anything u are on a long thing. As long as it didn't affect herdsmen and their cattle he will careless. 1 Like |
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