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15Ebisco:
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

PRESIDENT BUHARI THAT IS HAVING SLEEPLESS NIGHT OVER HOW HE INTEND TO BEAT OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT ABUBAKAR ATIKU WILL NOT HAVE TIME TO LISTEN TO THE CASE OF THE OPPRESSED NIGERIAN SHOP OWNER IN GHANA.

Even President Buhari do not know how to fight for his own APC member that supported him to win 2015 Presidential election.

Make una leave Buhari to take Tramadol and Cordeine to sleep very well.

badmrkt:
no be Buhari wey we know. them dey waste dia time. they better manage till Atiku comes in next. they'd be heard.

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Ironi:
Why don't you pack and go back to Nigeria?

Why should Nigerians be running around in other people's country and creating a mess?

Should you always be running away from Nigeria.

Nigeria has vast land, huge population and huge resources and yet you are going to smaller countries who have far less than you have to choke the system there.

What the fck is wrong with you people.

I think I know your problem.

Lols what are you saying Did you even read my post...
I don't live in Ghana OK,
Been around the world and that place is the last place I will reside.

Deepfreezer:
Lols what are you saying Did you even read my post...
I don't live in Ghana OK,
Been around the world and that place is the last place I will reside.

You were advising them to pack and leave to Liberia.

You would get the same problem in Liberia.

Why not try, pack and leave to Nigeria?

Na by force to stay for Ghana?Dem dey take style tell you say make you go back to your country .

Why will you go and be selling drugs, killing their people for ritual and mere girlfriend grudges? Ghanaians please deal with them to the extent they won't recognise their villages when they return to Naija, idiots

2016v2017:
in this Buhari government,no kind of humiliation Nigerians never suffer abroad

My Broda I tire ooo

Ironi:
You were advising them to pack and leave to Liberia.

You would get the same problem in Liberia.

Why not try, pack and leave to Nigeria?

just saying bro. One can't progress where they ain't needed.
Home (Nigeria) remains the best option, God willing when our business mogul takes over 2019 things will change.

buhari n APC dullardinos na only how to borrow, steal , cattle colony/ranching coupled with propaganda dem know, have their matters taken up assp in ECOWAS if it does not work, have all Nigerian large n small scale businesses pull out by creating enabling environment meant for them to run successfully within a short period it is so possible, or place a temporary embargo on trade between Ghana n naija let's c who will suffer, Nigeria is not called a country with the largest economy for nothing, y taking a step like a rat when u could actually take a step of an elephant, weak gvt

Ironi:
Have you been able to even take over sambisa forest (sp) where Boko Haram is reigning?

You can't even wipe your own ass and you want to try somebody's.

lol u just kill this stupid illiterate nigga ass