Run-off Tension Affects Business

A section of businessmen, women and traders in the capital have expressed their dissatisfaction over the slow pace at which business is going. They fear this years christmas shopping would be heavily affected by the presidential re-run.

According to them its seems Ghanaians have forgoten to shop. Speaking to a gift shop owner at Makola, she lamented that last year by this time she had ordered about two containers of assorted goods but this year half of her November order has just being sold.

She said since December 7, after the Electoral Commissioner (EC) had announced the run-off, people refused to shop, whiles trying to figure out how things will work in their favour to ensure their candidate wins, leaving christmas to it fate. Others also lamented that their wares were begining to go bad as people have refused to patronise them. ” I am so confused i know i would be having problems with the banks that they borrowed money from since sales is bad” a trader said.

At the hawkers market at the Kwame Nkrumah circle, situation was no different as traders complained of low patronage. According to one trader who gave her name as Yaa business was so bad and for her it affects her family, whiles she also believes that her children’s school fees will suffer next year.

Brother John who also sells electricals at the hawkers market noted that traders who are making money are those who are sellig party paraphenalia’s. Others consoled themselves that Ghanaians are late shoppers and they hope that things would change.