Ghana's local cement industry is under threat from an import surge

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  • Tonto 2 months ago

    Why do you guys fear??? The price a bi? greedy hv u guys forget that poor also will sleep and u guys think about ur stomach only....Reduce your own as well as Togo and STOP COMPLAINING....Saaajowa!!!!

  • Banjie Nyankonton 2 months ago

    WHAT STUPID AND GREEDY BUSINESS ANALYSIS

    MR DAWSON AMOAH WHAT ARE YOU COOKING FOR VULNERABLE GHANAIANS TO EAT? YOU GUYS THINK ALL GHANAIANS ARE FOOKS AND GREEDY LIKE YOU? WOULDN’T IT HAVE BEEN SENSIBLE TO GIVE US A PRIC ...
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  • Okyere 2 months ago

    This is why local traders are chanting “Nigeria must go”. We are our own enemies. Spare parts dealers are the most wicked traders.

  • OGyam 2 months ago

    @Okyere, America, South Korea etc all grew through protectionism. History tells us that. Every country needs a bit of local protectionism That is a fact

  • Nathaniel Dumavor 2 months ago

    That's why you can still find poor people in those develop countries, is it not a wickedness?

  • Akam 2 months ago

    Tonto, you made a great point. The greed on the part of cement manufacturers is just too much. The president must change the minister of trade and industry because she doesn't have the capacity to handle that sector.

  • Kofi Akwetey 2 months ago

    Nobody is in charge of industry oo. There is a minister of trade and agribusiness. Lol

  • WHEN ITS ABOUT DZATA CEMENT IS A PROBLEM ERH? 2 months ago

    WHEN ITS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S BROTHER IBRAHIM MAHAMA BUSINESS ITS A NATIONAL CRISES RIGHT? HOW MANY TIMES HAVE GUSA CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO CLEAN UP THE FOREIGNERS TAKEN OVER GHANAIAN RETAIL BUSINESS? HOW MANY TIMES HAVE T ...
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  • Think properly 2 months ago

    Togo has a duty free port at Lome that attracts foreign businesses to dump their products in West Africa. I'm pretty certain that cement originates from China and begged in Togo with Ghana being their main destination focus. ...
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  • Think properly 2 months ago

    Togo has a duty free port at Lome that attracts foreign businesses to dump their products in West Africa. I'm pretty certain that cement originates from China and bagged in Togo with Ghana being their main destination focus. ...
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  • Mandela 2 months ago

    What about the interAfrican trade? Ghanaian business men have no mercy for Ghanaian consumers. Always fighting for the right to cheat consumers. Face the competition, fools.

  • DDT 2 months ago

    Since the local manufacturers have decided to be greedy by not reducing their prices, we need even cement from all over Africa in Ghana. The local manufacturers providing jobs is not an excuse because the foreign products als ...
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  • Osei Bonsu 2 months ago

    We need to encourage Ivory coast, Burkina Faso and Nigeria to flood the country with their cement. If they refuse to reduce the price of cement, then competition will resolve this greed among Ghanaian businessmen.

  • Bradaman 2 months ago

    If they flood the market with their cheap products and the local cement factories close down who loses.Its Ghana that will lose tax revenues and the thousands that will lose their jobs. You will be same person who will turn a ...
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  • Northern Boy 2 months ago

    With all the fowls roaming our streets and backyards we import frozen chicken all the time into ghana in the kilotons from countries where you may never even see a live fowl in your life time. Yet the poultry farmer is managi ...
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  • Greedy Bastard 2 months ago

    Greedy bastards, even in d face if cedis appreciation you refuse to bring down the price in same manner, u are doing kokonsa so the good quality but low price cement would be banned in order to force us to buy your super expe ...
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  • Mr Acheampong 2 months ago

    You're an idiot!

  • Greedy Bastard 2 months ago

    Greedy bastards, even in d face of cedis appreciation you refuse to bring down the price in same manner, u are doing kokonsa so the good quality but low price cement would be banned in order to force us to buy your super expe ...
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  • Kofi 2 months ago

    These local manufacturers have refused to reduce prices despite the cedi appreciation, because they want super profit. Until, they reduce prices to reflect the cedi appreciation, they will suffer the same fate like the Abosey ...
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  • MAN JUSTICE 2 months ago

    Are we going to cry for CHINESE to leave as well.

  • ABC KingHorns 2 months ago

    The crying doctor must tell Ghanaians how come they are the only country producing a bag of cement at 8 USD when the same bag of cement is being produced in Togo,Benin and Nigeria at 6 USD. Early this year when the exchange r ...
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  • Bring cement and take dollars 2 months ago

    Another pressure on the dollar.

  • Nash 2 months ago

    Please Togolese, bring more. We need them. Do break that monopoly for us. The wickedness is up the roof

  • People of Ghana 2 months ago

    The government has taken measures to stabilize rates. If businesses are unwilling to lower prices for the Ghanaian people, what further action do you expect from the government to prevent what could be seen as exploitation?
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  • Nonsense!! 2 months ago

    You guys want to be monopoly!! You raise hick price any how!! Embrace competition!!

  • Kay 2 months ago

    What is preventing your members from exporting into Togo? Afterall you also want more profits and that's why you have refused to reduce prices.

  • Osei Bonsu 2 months ago

    Sharp, they know their prices cannot compete in any other country in Africa. Greed is what is improving this country. It is sad as it appears we embraced democracy too early.

  • Nato 2 months ago

    Hmmm a bag of cement in Nigeria is ghc 60.00 meanwhile our local produces have been selling to us in Ghana for ghc75 to ghc 120 for years. Why? Is the Nigeria Togo ,Benin raw materials for cement production different from ...
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  • Facts and figures 2 months ago

    You should support your facts with the cost of production for one bag of cement between the two countries.

  • SA 2 months ago

    Everything in Ghana is super expensive because of greed, our inflation should've been between 2 to 3% and not 11%, we need prices to come down for our people to live confortably or the government should open our borders for i ...
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  • hh 2 months ago

    When you were asked to reduce your price, what did you say?
    Just let us be.
    You fear competition right?

  • Atsu 2 months ago

    I dought if the ministry of trade is for all Ghanaians or only the rich. At the appreciation of the cedi, the ministry has fail completely to ensure that the Ghanaian consumer is fairly treated. At times, I feel deeply disapp ...
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  • Kojo 2 months ago

    Please the business men in Ghana should do us favour and import more from outside the country, even if they can import from all over Africa. These local producers are very wicked and selfish. Everything that is produce in Gha ...
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  • Stepwise 2 months ago

    What is wrong with Ghanaian businessmen? You guys are right, it is greediness.

  • AGATAPORE( SANDEMA) 2 months ago

    COCMAG IS VERY CORRUPT. DOLLAR WAS REDUCED BUT YOU STILL HIKE YOUR PRICES UP TO THE ROOF WHY? LET CEMENT FROM TOGO COME. IF YOU PRODUCE CEMENT CHEAPLY, WE WILL NOT GO FOR TOGOLIESE CEMENT.

  • Edi 2 months ago

    GHANA CRY BABIES AGAIN THERE IS NO TREAT HERE REDUCE YOUR PRICES TO MEET THE IMPORT PRICES OR GO AND SHOT DOWN YOUR BUSINESS NO SYMPATHY HERE FOR GHANA FOR THIS INDUSTRY THAT HAVE BEEN RIPPING US OFF IN GHANA FOR ...
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  • Yew 2 months ago

    No sympathy for ghana cement industry we will buy the cheaper nigerian cement ghana cement industry should go ripp off someone else

  • Jkmee 2 months ago

    How much is the cement price.

  • Kyeiwaa Vida 2 months ago

    19 year ago a Ghanaian businessman told me he operates hit businesses with the Nigerian mindset, thin profits margins, lifelong satisfied customers. His business is making obscene profits to this day and the other greedy Ghan ...
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  • Door keeper 2 months ago

    It is not only cement. Some of us do practically all our shopping and businesses in Burkina Faso and Togo since 2018. Banking, holidays, rice, oil, milk, soap, even our masons, plumbers, electricians, carpenters all come fro ...
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  • Tony 2 months ago

    U cement manufacturer in this country, Ghana are insensitive to Ghanaians, u refused to reduce the price of cement to make it affordable and now people begins to be looking for alternatives, then u are complaining. How much ...
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  • VINCENT 2 months ago

    Local cement manufacturers are PROFITEERING, REFUSE TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF CEMENT. Competitive market shall help the cement product. Monopoly Manufacturers why are lamenting, if you are not cheating Ghanaians .

  • Ray 2 months ago

    Why the Government of Ghana allowed importation of Cement while we manufacture cement locally.It doesn’t make sense. It put pressure on the Foreign exchange markets.. Who allows that. This is simple economics.

  • Kofi Adu 2 months ago

    Ghana is a free market economy
    Government should stay out of this. If the Ghanaian cement manufacturers are providing good prices why the import?

  • Yew 2 months ago

    protection bull shit dont work the cement industray should reduce price like the Nigerian company and stop crying you have been ripping us off for many years we got no sympathy for you crooks

  • Irrational 2 months ago

    Why will one import from a different country? Unless the locally made ones are expensive. And why will a locally manufactured product be more expensive than imported ones? Unless the producers are greedy. Simple. Stop being g ...
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  • kwame Boahene 2 months ago

    Our love for cheap goods will eventually be our downfall.Protect local industry or be swept away...

  • BEK 2 months ago

    No support for you period. We Ghanaians are not happy with the cost of a cement bag. Dangote cement etc ..come on board sharp

  • Mr Acheampong 2 months ago

    Your government made the Dollar cheap so imports of all goods are cheaper than domestically produced goods. This has created a state where manufacturing companies cannot compete with cheap imports and so Ghana is now importin ...
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  • Lohedau 2 months ago

    Where can I locate some of the Togo imported cement?
    Since our local cement industry refuses to reduce prices, other alternatives must be explored.

  • Greed 2 months ago

    They want monopoly. Greedy f00ls. If dangote cement hadn't entered ghana, cement would have been more than 200 by now, it was the dangote cement that brought in stability into the cement industry. Monopoly is not good.

  • Stephen 2 months ago

    This is what we called competition, same as the poultry industry. We have poultry farmers in the country yet there's impartation of cheap unhygienic poultry products in the country.

  • Ghana cement too expensive 2 months ago

    Yes it is time for Ghana cement to have price reduction. Outside cement is not competing against Ghana cement. It is Ghana cement is too expensive too much profit.

  • Arkhosua 2 months ago

    Reduce your prices. Greedy bustards.

  • BZ 2 months ago

    We pray for more of it kind to come. Nonsense

  • Nii Adjei Sowa 2 months ago

    We fight everyone who might be helping the common Ghanaians. It's Nigerians, now Togolese, and who is next? We are afraid of competition and you guys always want the masses to join you in your selfish and wicked fight.

  • Cliff 2 months ago

    Greedy people! If you people afraid of competition, the best thing is to reduce your price other than that we're patronize the foreign ones.

  • Emmanuel Appiah-Adjei 2 months ago

    All this is due to the high prices of the cement produce in Ghana. Kalabule prices. If the prices are reasonable no trader can import and make profit but because prices here in ghana is higher people can import pay duty and s ...
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  • Kwame Nkrumah! 2 months ago

    We need more competitiveness in the cement market in Ghana!! The price of cement is too high in Ghana!!

  • Silly man 2 months ago

    Is Togo not an ECOWAS member? What are the prerogatives and the benefit and protocols of ECOWAS? Free trade areas and movement of goods and services including members across ECOWAS borders without any hindrances. Dead head an ...
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  • Nathaniel Dumavor 2 months ago

    Allow we the poor also breath small wickedness from the treaders is too much, reduce your price to merit with the dollar depreciation

  • Bugbaba 2 months ago

    Bring your prices down.

  • Settoo 2 months ago

    Tell me how is it that a company will make cement outside ghana, transport it to ghana and still able to compete with ghana cement, answer excessive profit, is the same reason a lot of traders want somes to.close so that ther ...
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  • Kwaku 2 months ago

    If the quality of the imported cement is comparable to the local brands, it's very good. We need competition to be more efficient. The local cement manufacturers cannot fleece Ghanaians.

  • Spirit 2 months ago

    Let the imports flow,we're tired of ghacem and others. Ghc118 for a bag of cement, why?

  • Ibrahim 2 months ago

    Always blabbing about the right thing while they do contrary. Aren't they manufacture with the same materials you do? Greedy bastards!

  • Wenyo 2 months ago

    The local industry can't meet the demand so it will creat artificial inflation let more importers join the line please