Some aggrieved customers of First Allied Savings and Loans in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, who have their funds locked up, have besieged the premises of Otec FM, a private radio station in Kumasi, to protest against the Receiver, who has been mandated to pay them.
They said the receiver, whom the government has given the money to pay, has refused to honour his payment promise at the end June this, a situation the customers described as “an attempt to use his intelligent to cheat them”.
The customers, who were in their furious mood, said they have been validated by the Bank of Ghana (BOG), the receiver has admitted been paid by the government and wondered why the receiver is “playing hide and seek” and have thus threatened to picket at the BOG in Accra for their money.
The customers, numbering about hundred, were at the Otec FM premises to intervene in what they described as receiver’s failure to pay them back their investment.
“The receiver promised to pay us our investment at the beginning of July this year but till now we haven’t gotten our money. I invested GHC90, 000, I have been validated but haven’t gotten any sign of recovering my investment. I will go to Accra and sleep at there,” a customer swore.
“As waitress, I have been able to deposit GHC7, 642 in these times of economic hardship. Prez Nana Akufo Addo has not been fair to us at all. He is sound, eating and sleeping while we are suffering. If indeed he has given the receiver money to pay us, he should order him immediately to pay us, else, we will be joining him at the Jubilee House,” a crying customer threatened.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Francis Appiah
