Ghana’s Minister of Information has appealed that ECOWAS must swiftly engage Nigeria on the issue of land border closure.
A Ghanaian newspaper, www.ghanaweb.com, reported, Oppong Nkrumah, in an interview with journalists, lamented that the border closure was affecting Ghanaian traders.
According to the newspaper, Nkrumah called the situation ‘a terrible one.’ He said a delegation was dispatched to visit the Ghanaian traders who had had their goods locked up at the borders after Nigeria shut its borders in August.
He stated that, “It is very important for ECOWAS as a bloc to engage Nigeria on the closure of the borders because moves like this have a way of negatively impacting the West African Economic Integration project,” he cautioned.
According to him, both Ghana and Nigeria’s cabinets are expected to meet between November 8 and 9, 2019 at the next ECOWAS summit to further address the issue.
The newspaper also reported on Monday that Ghanaian traders at Opera Square in Accra locked shops owned by foreigners in the country’s capital.
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