Aggrieved Accra Tudu Market Traders Threaten To Demo Against Exorbitant Taxes
They lamented that their businesses are collapsing, and we cannot continue to sit down unconcerned.”
Freeman Koryekpor 
Thousands of aggrieved traders in the Accra Central Business District have threatened to close their shops to protest over what they described as exorbitant tax policies affecting their businesses.
According to the leadership of the traders, they had met officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to discuss on how to reduce the taxes on their products but the GRA didn't listen to their plights.
They lamented that their businesses are collapsing, and we cannot continue to sit down unconcerned.”
They stated that the GRA's taxes policy is not helping business growth and is collapsing their businesses.”
The traders have also been concerned with the strength of the cedi.
The traders cried out that the taxes being collected from them by the GRA are too much, lamenting that aside paying exorbitant taxes on their products "we are not having any place to even sell our products."
According to them, the taskforce of the
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) had subjected them to constant harassments and that where are are currently selling our products at Tudu, the AMA is warning us to move from there."
In furtherance of this, the traders called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Nana Akufo Addo Ministry of Trade and Industry to come to their aid so that they will be allowed to sell their products in order to get money to take care of their children.
"Mr President we are pleading to you that you should intervene in the matter to safeguard the situation because those of us selling at the road side in Accra Tudu enclaves are really suffering.
