The Ashanti Regional branch of the Aluminum and Glass Fabricators Association, has expressed bitterness over foreigners infiltrating the fabrication business, and as a result has threatened to protest against the invasion of the Glass Fabrication trade by foreigners.
Speaking in an interview with Zylofon FM´s Oman Nana (Samuel Essel), the Ashanti Regional president for the Aluminum and Glass Fabricators Association ( AGFA), Alex Sirkey said the demonstration is to remind the government to enforce laws that forbid foreigners from engaging in such retail trading, which is reserved for Ghanaians.
Mr Sirkey stated that, “they want the government as a matter of urgency to stop these foreigners from engaging in local businesses and enforce the laws on Local business, just as it is doing in the textiles industry – enforcing the pirating law by prosecuting offenders”.
“How can we sit in our country and watch Nigerians, Chinese, Indians and others take over our local works”, he questioned.
“Mr Sirkey is of the conviction that Nana Addo’s administration, which believes in the rule of law, will enforce the law to bring sanity in the Glass Fabricating business as it has done in the mining industry.
He indicated that the growing involvement and dominance of foreign nationals in the fabricating and artisan trade, had serious implications for Ghanaians, collapsing some businesses.
“It is of this view that we want government to protect the local businesses from collapsing, by enforcing the local business laws”, he added.
“Our Jobs are collapsing, Many marriages have collapsed¨, he opined.