{"id":647329,"date":"2019-06-28T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 28 June 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n2019-06-28\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/156174"},"modified":"2019-06-28T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:52:45","slug":"ghanaians-friendly-not-xenophobic-just-respect-our-laws-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/ghanaians-friendly-not-xenophobic-just-respect-our-laws-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians friendly, not xenophobic; just respect our laws \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 28 June 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-06-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/1561747965_266_67281259.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akufo Addo  In  Black\" title=\"Akufo Addo  In  Black\" width=\"295\" height=\"238\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana\u2019s President, Nana Akufo-Addo has refuted recent claims that Ghanaian are xenophobic following a series of attacks and vandalisation of Nigerian-owned shops by some Ghanaian traders at Suame Magazine in the Ashanti Region as well as the forceful closure of others in Accra by angry Ghanaian retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Per Ghana\u2019s laws, foreigners are barred from engaging in retail trade. It is the preserve of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>The angry Ghanaian traders, therefore, said they were merely enforcing Ghana\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n<p>But the Ghana Police Service has warned them against taking the laws into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to Ghana, Togo and Benin, His Excellency Bernard Ehui Koutoua, at the Jubilee House when he called to bid farewell to Ghana after his eight-year service, Mr Akufo-Addo said: \u201cIn recent times, some utterances in Ghana and actions of a few has given the impression somehow rather that Ghana is now becoming a xenophobic state; that we have problems with our fellow Africans. That is the exact opposite of the truth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no xenophobian in Ghana; we are not a xenophobic state,\u201d the Ghanaian leader said, adding: \u201cWe are the pan-African nation that has opened its doors to all Africans and they are not going to be the object of any hate campaign in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we will insist on, which is what every nation insists on, is that our own domestic laws are respected by those who come to our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, the outgoing Ivorian Ambassador and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Ghana said under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo and President Alassane Ouattara, \u201cThe joint operations of our two countries have made it possible to deal with maritime piracy and terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was hopeful that the relationship between Ghana and Cote D\u2019Ivoire will be deepened further, even after his departure from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador of the Republic of Kuwait to Ghana, His Excellency Mohammed Hussain Al-Failakawi; the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to Ghana, His Excellency Mohamed Farahat; and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Ghana, His Excellency Hughes Chantry; were also at the Jubilee House to bid farewell to the President as they bring their tour of duty in Ghana to an end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 28 June 2019 Source: classfmonline.com 2019-06-28 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Ghana\u2019s President, Nana Akufo-Addo has refuted recent claims that Ghanaian are xenophobic following a series of attacks and vandalisation of Nigerian-owned shops by some Ghanaian traders at Suame Magazine in the Ashanti Region as well as the forceful closure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2118,3241,2319,1553,1926,3162],"class_list":["post-647329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","tag-akufoaddo","tag-friendly","tag-ghanaians","tag-laws","tag-respect","tag-xenophobic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaians friendly, not xenophobic; 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