Kanawu Radio number 1 news portal
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), has charged the public to desist from buying food commodities from traders who are stacked with old systems of measurement and weighing – ‘Olonka’.
According to the Director of Public Relations at the GSA, Dr Kofi Amponsah-Bediako, every trader is supposed to use calibrated devices to measure or weigh items for buyers in other to ensure equity and fair trade.
“Times are changing and the earlier they (traders) change, the better for all of us. Using standard measuring scales is in the interest of the buyer and the seller”.
Dr Amponsah – Bediako indicated that when buyers begin to boycott traders using these old methods, they will change. “I would like to urge the public to boycott traders using the ‘olonka’ and others that are not standardized and they will change.
The surest way to get the buy-in of these traders is education which Dr Amponsah-Bediako says the Authority has attempted but failed due to the posturing of some traders who chased them with cutlasses during one of such exercise.
Having accurate systems of measuring goods for sale is very essential as Ghana hosts the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade area and gears-up to welcome other foreign traders into the country.
