Customers of the defunct GN Bank in Wa protest against non-payment

Dozens of injured clients of the now defunct GN Bank, turned into a savings and credit company, as well as Gold Coast Securities Company in the Upper West region, demanded immediate payment of their frozen savings .

Angry customers, consisting mainly of retirees, men and women of business and several other government employees, said that the inability of corporate management to allow them to withdraw their money seriously compromised their ability to meet their basic needs.

Although the clients asked the government to intervene in this case, they promised to continue walking the streets of Wa with a series of demonstrations until their demands were met.

Customers walked peacefully through Wa's central market to the main truck terminal and then converged on the forecourt of the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council to petition the regional minister.

They sang war songs and carried placards with inscriptions such as "Nduom, we want our money, pay our money".

Mr. Gilbert Nuuri-Teg, Director General of the RCC, who received the petition on behalf of the Regional Minister, Mr. Hafiz Bin-Salih, urged clients to exercise restraint when the Minister was reviewing it to obtain repair.

Customer spokesman Stephen Kpen told the media that they were disappointed with the Bank of Ghana for totally neglecting the plight of customers.

He added that despite the February cry for stakeholder intervention, no one listened to their case as GN Bank, the Gold Coast Securities Company, the Bank of Ghana and the Security Exchange Commission remained on the sidelines.

Mr Isaac Nwebabora, head of aggrieved clients, said that since June 2018, none of its members could withdraw money from the bank despite the promise of managers to pay their money by March.

"The civil servants receiving a salary through the GN bank, you will go at the end of the month and they will give 50 GH ¢. In the meantime, the controller and the accountant have paid the money, "he added.

Christiana Dakurah Kaara-Aiu, a retired prison staffer, told the Ghana News Agency that her five-year investment was worth 50,000 GH ¢. She was stuck, putting her in a very difficult financial situation for her manager's life.

"Although I'm retired, I still pay school fees and other family members depend on me, my child attending the polytechnic dropped out because of this money stuck there," he said. she said.

Source: GNA