By Cynthia Akande
There was pandemonium at a ‘Ghana Wig Fair’ organised by a Nigerian hair vendor in Accra as local business people asked her to “go back to her country”
It was gathered that the Nigerian wig seller, identified as Priceless Hairs, hosted a wig fair for her Ghanaian customers and gave them a massive price slash.
This, however, didn’t sit well with some wig sellers in Ghana, known as ‘Makola market women’, who stormed the venue to disrupt the sales.
They accused her of trying to take away their customers after they had spent a lot of money importing wigs, unprocessed hairs and other accessories from Nigeria, with the attendant high customs duties.
A video making rounds on social media shows the Ghanaian wig sellers causing commotion at the wig fair, which they eventually stopped from taking place.
The angry vendors also pasted several posters at the venue, ordering the Nigerian seller to leave Ghana and go back to her country to host a fair.
The posters read “Enough is enough”, “Go back to your country”, “Ghanaians are taken for granted”, “You aren’t welcome”, “You can’t crash Ghana”, “You can’t overshadow us” etc.
