Ghana gives Nigerian traders 14days to pay $ 1 million trade levy, FG reacts

The Federal Government has reacted over the imposition of $1 million trade levy on Nigerian traders by the Ghanian government, says it would no longer tolerate such act.

Ghana’s Ministry of Trade had also given the traders a 14 -day ultimatum to pay the fee and threatened to close their shops if they fail to comply.

Reacting to the development on Friday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the FG is urgently considering a number of options aimed at ameliorating the situation, adding that it was deeply concerned by the incessant harassment of its citizens in Ghana and the progressive acts of hostility towards the country by Ghanaian authorities.

Mohammed stated, “The Federal Government will like to put on record the fact that even though, over one million Ghanaians are resident in Nigeria, they are not being subjected to the kind of hostility being meted out to Nigerians in Ghana.

“Also, even though, the main reason given for the seizure of Federal Government property at No. 10, Barnes Road in Accra is the non-renewal of the lease after expiration, the Ghanaian authorities did not give Nigeria the right of first refusal or the notice to renew the lease.”

“By contrast, the lease on some of the properties occupied by the Ghanaian Mission in Nigeria has long expired, yet such properties have not been seized, ”the minister said.

Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News