The President of the Nigeria Union of Traders Association (NUTAG), Mr Chwukuemeka Nnaji, has said he is ready to die to protect his shop as well as several others belonging to Nigerians from being closed by members of the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association.

It follows the closure of 150 Nigerian shops at Abossey Okai in Accra on Wednesday, 29 July 2020.

Mr Nnaji told Class News in an interview that: “I think enough is enough, we are not going to take it anymore”.

“As the national President of [NUTAG], I’m commanding Nigerians to defend themselves from anybody, from any GUTA or any association. We are here legally. Travelling or migration is not a crime”, he said, adding: “And I’m saying it on top of my voice because there are a lot of millions of Ghanaians living in Nigeria, doing businesses and nobody is challenging them”.

“Why are they closing our shops every day?” he asked.

“They have no right to do that. I’m ready now to die because ‘all die is die’. I’m going to die now”, he fumed.

“Let them come and kill me. This must stop. I’ve been here for over 25 years and I’m ready now to face them. Where are they? Let them come”, he dared.

He continued: “Listen, if the government of Ghana decides that Nigerians should go, there’s a protocol of ECOWAS that says: ‘Do not halt any member citizens; if you want to deport him, deport him legally, honourably, let him go home and stay’. We are ready to go home. We come from a country. I think they are taking us for granted and that is the end of the matter now.

“If anybody comes here to kill me, I’m ready to die. They will not close this shop and I’m waiting for the commander to give instructions … I’m going to command the Nigerian shops to reopen and if anything happens to any Nigerian in Ghana, listen, I’m going to take it out from the executive of GUTA, I’m going to tackle it from the executives of the Abossey Okai Association; Mr Boateng and Akonta will be the number one culprits”, he threatened.

According to him, he pays his taxes, noting that he had to pay some GHS500,000 to the Ghanaian authorities to release his merchandise at some point in time.

“I’m tired of living in this country in this illegality … it should stop now”, he said.

Meanwhile, the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association is calling on the government to implement the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) Act, GIPC Act, 2013 (Act 865), to prevent foreigners in the country from engaging in retail trade.

The group wants the Presidential Committee on Retail Trade set up by the government to vet the operating documents of foreigners in the retail business to do its job properly.

The Co-Chairman of the Association, Nana Kwabena Peprah told journalists that: “We know how even the law allows a foreigner to apply in retail trade. They go through a process of registering at the GIPC for a certificate and where they can ply their trade. No trader in Ghana speaks against Melcom, Max Mart, and other retail outlets. It is simply because they are going through the rules that govern trading in Ghana. All that we are saying is that the GIPC law is implemented because the current situation is affecting us”.

What Ghana's laws say:

Section 28 of the GIPC law says:

(1) A person who is not a citizen may participate in an enterprise specified in Section 27 if that person (a) in the case of a joint enterprise with a partner who is a citizen, invests a foreign capital of not less than $200,000 in cash or capital goods relevant to the investment or a combination of both by way of equity participation, and the partner, who is a citizen, does not have less than 10 per cent equity participation in the joint enterprise; or (b) where the enterprise is wholly owned by that person, invests a foreign capital of not less than $500,000 in cash or capital goods relevant to the investment or a combination of both by way of equity capital in the enterprise.

(2) A person who is not a citizen may engage in a trading enterprise if that person invests in the enterprise, not less than $1million in cash or goods and services relevant to the investments

Mynd44 and lalasticalala help the plight of Nigerians

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/All-die-be-die-defend-yourselves-NUTAG-president-to-Nigerians-as-150-shops-closed-1021165

if you die you die

Oh dear. Has it gotten to that point?

Hmm

So sad

Nice, fight for your right

Edon hot be that, end time

IamWonderful:
Nice, fight for your right

Nonsense. They will be slaughtered like rams because they're heavily outnumbered.

Is it by force to trade in Ghana? Can't they come back and manage in Nigeria or better still try other non hostile countries.

Ghana has made it clear in more than 10 years now that they don't want Nigerians. Why force yourselves on them.

Can Ghanaians in Nigeria doing business afford to deposit $500,000 us dollars to our own government before they can do their businesses in Nigeria?

Nigerian embassies in Africa clearly don't know their jobs, perhaps they're only their to receive huge monthly salary for doing nothing. Chinese and Indians are doing retail business in Ghana but they're not been harassed by Ghanaian government.

A typical Ghanaian is still hurt over Ghana must go. Meanwhile, I had on arise news TV that they were the one that first drive Nigerians away in the 1960s.

GraGra247:


Nonsense. They will be slaughtered like rams because they're heavily outnumbered.

Is it by force to trade in Ghana? Can't they come back and manage in Nigeria or better still try other non hostile countries.

Ghana has made it clear in more than 10 years now that they don't want Nigerians. Why force yourselves on them.

You Ghanaians should make it official and quit ECOWAS. You can't be doing trading in Nigeria freely and be harassing our people there

GraGra247:


Nonsense. They will be slaughtered like rams because they're heavily outnumbered.

Is it by force to trade in Ghana? Can't they come back and manage in Nigeria or better still try other non hostile countries.

Ghana has made it clear in more than 10 years now that they don't want Nigerians. Why force yourselves on them.

Come back to Nigeria?
Imagine what you are saying.

Has it gotten to that level?......that won't be nice oh......pls we don't want our people coming back in bags......let peace reign.

Charleys:


Come back to Nigeria?
Imagine what you are saying.

all you Ghanaians will be deported soon

temptnow:
all you Ghanaians will be deported soon

Guy I'm not a Ghanaian, my name is supposed to be chalice, but auto correct messed me up while I was registering. So I just went along with it.


I'm more Nigerian than you.
I know my parents up to 5 generations.

Charleys:


Guy I'm not a Ghanaian, my name is supposed to be chalice, but auto correct messed me up while I was registering. So I just went along with it.


I'm more Nigerian than you.
I know my parents up to 5 generations.

Decieve your generation, not me

Charleys:


Come back to Nigeria?
Imagine what you are saying.

Do you even have any iota of thinking faculty left.

Can you re-imagine your senseless statement. or you're simply unaware of what is happening in Ghana.

temptnow:


Decieve your generation, not me

Google me. That's your assignment this morning.

temptnow:


You Ghanaians should make it official and quit ECOWAS. You can't be doing trading in Nigeria freely and be harassing our people there

Mumu! Anyone that proffers a sensible lifesaving advice to suffering Nigerians in Ghana automatically becomes a Ghanaian before your deluded self.

They should just leave Ghana. Ghanaians are showing increasing intolerance for Nigerians.

afroniger:
They should just leave Ghana. Ghanaians are showing increasing intolerance for Nigerians.

But their people are here too

Why are they closing shops that belong to only Igbo traders.


Are the Igbos overbearing?

Why are they "marginalizing" Igbos even in Ghana?

What is it about Igbos that many people tend to hate them?

Is it because of their egoistic and arrogance nature?

These are some questions that need answers.

how will lalasticala "help the plight of Nigerians?".

temptnow:


Mynd44 and lalasticalala help the plight of Nigerians

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/All-die-be-die-defend-yourselves-NUTAG-president-to-Nigerians-as-150-shops-closed-1021165

Are there Ghanaians still in that shiithole? Tell them to come back home. home sweet home

temptnow:
all you Ghanaians will be deported soon

right? which right?

IamWonderful:
Nice, fight for your right

is the closure of nigeria's borders not a violation of ecowas protocols? hypocrites

temptnow:


You Ghanaians should make it official and quit ECOWAS. You can't be doing trading in Nigeria freely and be harassing our people there

Charmingrascal:
Why are they closing shops that belong to only Igbo traders.


Are the Igbos overbearing?

Why are they "marginalizing" Igbos even in Ghana?

What is it about Igbos that many people tend to hate them?

Is it because of their egoistic and arrogance nature?

These are some questions that need answers.

So , after reading the article with understanding that these Igbos are there legally the only input you could afford was to find a stuppid fault in the Igbo man based on your hate towards them. Hate will be your portion !!

IDENNAA:



So , after reading the article with understanding that these Igbos are there legally the only input you could afford was to find a stuppid fault in the Igbo man based on your hate towards them. Hate will be your portion !!

Hate has been the portion of your forefathers and it still continues.

Charmingrascal:


Hate has been the portion of your forefathers and it still continues.

I thought you enjoyed spreading hate ?