Starting a Business in Ghana: A Practical Guide for Diaspora Founders

Section 32 lists six activities that a non-citizen, or a company not wholly owned by citizens, may not enter: selling in a market, petty trading, hawking or selling from a stall; beauty salons and barbering shops; taxi or car-hire services with fewer than 25 vehicles; production of exercise books and basic stationery; retail of finished pharmaceutical products; and production, supply and retail of sachet water. The consequences are serious. A breach attracts 5,000 to 10,000 penalty units, plus 500 to 1,000 for every month it continues. Letting or subletting a market stall to a foreigner for trading is a criminal offence.