Spare parts dealers to hit the streets on Nov 29 if…

The Ghana Association of Spare Parts Dealers has served notice that it will hit the streets on Friday, November 29, if government does not respond to a petition filed to protest the infiltration of foreigners in retail business in the country.

“This is our land and the laws of the land states that no foreigner can do retail business,” Kwame Brenya, the President of the Suame Magazine Branch of the Association, emphasized.

He said the Association had originally scheduled Friday, November 15, 2013 to embark on the protest march but had to reconsider the date due to an announcement by the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) for workers to strike on November 18 over utility tariffs.

He explained that since Organised Labour has called off its strike, the Association will meet on Friday to endorse the new date for the protest.

Mr Brenya lamented the lack of commitment on the part of the Presidential task force to fight foreigners who are engaged in retail and petty trading. "It is a direct abuse to our laws," he said.

“All we have been hearing from them are excuses and counter excuses,” he told TV3’s William Evans Nkum.