{"id":765006,"date":"2019-12-14T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/akufo-addo-backs-guta-in-retail-market-fight\/"},"modified":"2019-12-14T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:30:46","slug":"akufo-addo-backs-guta-in-retail-market-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/akufo-addo-backs-guta-in-retail-market-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"AKufo-Addo backs GUTA in retail market fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1576333846_887_GUTA-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"GUTA\"\/><\/div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he sides with the<br \/>\nGhana Union of Traders Association\u2019s (GUTA) interpretation of Ghana\u2019s trade<br \/>\nlaws that only locals can work in the retail sector.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo believes the laws of Ghana must be changed to ban foreigners from the local market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very delicate and difficult issue but I think some things are obvious; Members of GUTA are right in their interpretation of the laws of our country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ THIS<\/strong> : <strong>Revealed: List of 58 1D1F businesses announced by Akufo-Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThe laws of our country, until they are changed, have banned foreigners from engaging in retail trade in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition of the Encounter with the Media on Friday, he said Nigerians cannot complain about how Ghana\u2019s laws are enforced because a similar thing is being done in their country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ<\/strong>: <strong>Why Akufo-Addo describes his deputy as \u2018prophet\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he sides with the Ghana Union of Traders Association\u2019s (GUTA) interpretation of Ghana\u2019s trade laws that only locals can work in the retail sector. President Akufo-Addo believes the laws of Ghana must be changed to ban foreigners from the local market. \u201cWe have a very delicate and difficult issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AKufo-Addo backs GUTA in retail market fight? - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/akufo-addo-backs-guta-in-retail-market-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"AKufo-Addo backs GUTA in retail market fight? - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he sides with the Ghana Union of Traders Association\u2019s (GUTA) interpretation of Ghana\u2019s trade laws that only locals can work in the retail sector. 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