If Germans still sell salvage cars, why stop Ghanaians from buying the same ones?

General news for Friday, September 18, 2020

Source: My GH news

2020-09-18

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, secretary general of the Democratic National Congress (NDC), says the government’s decision to ban the import of salvage cars into the country is a way to kill local businesses in favor of foreigners.

“Doesn’t Germany sell second-hand cars? If the German, the creator of the VW automaker, still sells second-hand or salvage cars and is not banned, why then do they ban salvage cars because VW has come to set up a branch here? “, He asked himself.

Ghana’s Parliament months ago passed the Customs Bill that bans the import of salvage and accidental vehicles into the country.

The Law modifies the 2015 Customs Law (Law 891), which implies that damaged vehicles and motor vehicles older than ten years would be prohibited from importing into the country.

The nuclear power plant government has said the reason is to allow local manufacturers and assemblers such as Kanatanka Automobile and Volkswagen (VW) to reach a certain critical volume in order to make their investment pay off.

But Mr. Genaeral Mosquito, speaking recently at the NDC’s Tawn Hall meeting in the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), insisted that government action would collapse the local auto industry in favor of Volkswagen, which is not from Ghana. .

He further explained that the action of the government of the nuclear power plant is aimed at collapsing the indigenous companies of Ghana that feed thousands of people in the country.

According to him, once the German company realized that it had made sufficient profit, they can leave Ghana at any time leaving nothing for the country.