Ghanaian workers in the textile industry are angry at the failure of the country’s government to stop the smuggling of pirated prints many of which come from China.
The government for years now has been making efforts to stop the smuggling of such pirated prints with the setting up of a task-force.
The angry textile workers in Ghana have accused the government of failing to ensure that the task-force is effective and efficient.
Hundreds of them staged a street protest in the capital Accra on Friday hoping to receive the needed attention from the President, Nana Akufo Addo who they will petition over the matter.
The spokesperson for the Coalition of Textile Workers in Ghana, John Ackon told Starr FM that the current influx of such pirated wax prints has crippled the local textile companies with many workers being sacked.
Ackon is quoted as saying that the workers “want government to give the old mandate that was given to the task-force back to be able to go to the market and seize all the pirated cloths like they were doing in 2010.”
The task-force set up to deal with the piracy issue usually invades markets to seize these pirated prints and arrest dealers in the product, and Ackon said “We realized that when they started the influx of the pirated wax reduced because when the women had their prints seized they stopped buying the pirated ones”.
Source: Africafeeds.com
