NOPPMAN Seeks ECOWAS’ Intervention Over Ghana Onion Truck Blockade

*Association decries ₦1.2bn losses as Nigerian trucks face continued restrictions, proposes formal MoU under AfCFT

Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto

The National Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, NOPPMAN, has called on ECOWAS to urgently intervene in the continued restriction of Nigerian and Nigerien onion trucks at Kotoku Market in Ghana.

In a press conference in Sokoto the National President, Alhaji Aliyu Isah Maitasamu, the association said the protracted delays were inflicting huge financial losses on exporters and transporters while exposing highly perishable onions to deterioration.