The Nigerian Government has
convinced Ghanaian authorities to rescind it’s recent policy which compelled
Nigerians business persons in Ghana to pay a minimum of $300,000 or have their business closed.
The Nigerian High Commisioner in
Ghana Ademola Onafowokan, made this known to journalists that accompanied the
President of Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan on his trip to Accra for the
funeral of the late Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills.
The capital base requirements had
caused a lot of controversies as Nigerians doing business under the umbrella of
Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana(NUTAG) and the Eagle Circle
Traders, pleaded with the Nigerian Federal Government to intervene and cut
short what they alleged to be gross discrimination and unfair trade laws
contrary to that of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Onafowokan said the Nigerian High
Commission stepped in and succeeded in putting a stop to the policy. “Ghana,
just like Nigeria, welcomes foreigners, so let us quickly remove the erroneous impression
that Ghanaians are trying to drive Nigerians away like we did to ourselves in
the past,” he said. “That is not happening at all. Since I came here, I have
had been on top of the matter. I have spoken extensively on it and I have had
the course to meet with members of NUATAG here, calm them down, that this is a
borrowed home and not our home.
The problem that we are not
focusing on is that we Nigerians ourselves have a lot to do to educate and
educate our people from home. The National Orientation Agency should do a good
job.
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