The Ghana Requirements Authority (GSA) has intensified its nationwide marketing campaign towards the inflow of low-grade shopper items by shutting down 5A Properties, a Chinese language-owned manufacturing facility working throughout the Dawenya enclave within the Accra metropolitan space.
This enforcement train, held on Tuesday, Might 19, 2026, marks the second consecutive day of aggressive and focused enforcement exercise by state regulatory companies. The raid goals to root out fraudulent producers who flood the home market with inferior merchandise and compromise the well being and security of shoppers.
A staff of company enforcement officers descended on the premises of 5A Properties after cautious intelligence gathering.
Upon inspecting the manufacturing ground and warehouse part, the staff found that the ability was suspected of utilizing low-quality uncooked supplies within the manufacture of house mattresses. Its uncooked supplies had been considerably beneath mandated nationwide high quality requirements.
The enforcement staff instantly halted all manufacturing actions, evacuated staff, and positioned the complete facility beneath state lock-down.
Briefing reporters shortly after the operation, Higher Accra Regional Supervisor of the Ghana Bureau of Requirements, Clement Kubati, careworn that the continued train is a deliberate technique geared toward monitoring and eradicating all substandard merchandise from the market with a purpose to scale back their human and environmental impression on Ghanaians.
He defined that the enforcement motion in Dawenya was instantly prompted by revelations and operational intelligence secured throughout an identical raid performed yesterday.
“These are manufactured mattresses. We’re not speaking a couple of month or two. That is lately manufactured. These are substandard mattresses which are manufactured utilizing substandard supplies. So we’ll proceed. We’ll try to see what we are able to do within the retail market. However a few of them are coming into the retail market,” Kubati revealed.
The regional supervisor expressed critical considerations in regards to the freshness of the inventory discovered on the manufacturing unit and identified that the corporate is actively feeding these unapproved merchandise into the industrial chain.
He warned that regulators wouldn’t restrict their operations to manufacturing hubs however would broaden the drugnet to buying and selling hubs throughout the nation.
The closure of 5A Properties follows an identical high-stakes operation on Monday, Might 18, 2026, throughout which the GSA cracked down on and shut down a number of different mattress manufacturing corporations in Afienya, close to Tema.
These amenities had been additionally caught utilizing unapproved and substandard chemical formulations and supplies to fabricate bedding merchandise.
GSA indicated that the operation would proceed indefinitely. Producers of family merchandise are strongly cautioned to strictly adhere to nationwide high quality specification laws. Failure to take action might lead to fast closure, asset sealing, and subsequent prosecution.
