{"id":1228792,"date":"2022-10-19T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/guta-shops-closure-middlemen-takeover-abossey-okai-spare-parts-market\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:35:23","slug":"guta-shops-closure-middlemen-takeover-abossey-okai-spare-parts-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/19\/guta-shops-closure-middlemen-takeover-abossey-okai-spare-parts-market\/","title":{"rendered":"GUTA Shops Closure: Middlemen takeover \u2018Abossey Okai\u2019 Spare Parts Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Issah Mohammed\/ Munira Akweley Issah<\/p>\n<p>Accra, Oct 19, GNA \u2013 Middlemen, popularly called \u2018Affair Boys\u2019 Wednesday took over trading activities at the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Market to attend customers \u201cpartially\u201d following the closure of shops by owners as directed by the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most shops were closed as of 0900 hours but a few opened \u201cpartially\u201d to engage middlemen who occasionally picked a few items for customers who came around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The middlemen sat in front of the shops and intermittently dashed to attend to customers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is security presence at the Market enclave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GUTA this week declared six-day industrial action to protest the deteriorating economic situation in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing ahead of the directive for its members to close their shops, the Association said the strike was to serve as a \u201cpinch\u201d on government to urgently address the depreciating cedi, high interest and inflation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"6b6c3780decf34eb6df0ec06-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Issah Mohammed\/ Munira Akweley Issah Accra, Oct 19, GNA \u2013 Middlemen, popularly called \u2018Affair Boys\u2019 Wednesday took over trading activities at the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Market to attend customers \u201cpartially\u201d following the closure of shops by owners as directed by the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA).\u00a0 Most shops were closed as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6695,1795,168,446,2420,6697,4306,7144,6947,7698],"class_list":["post-1228792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-abossey","tag-closure","tag-guta","tag-market","tag-middlemen","tag-okai","tag-parts","tag-shops","tag-spare","tag-takeover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}