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Aggrieved customers of defunct banks threaten to besiege Jubilee House

22/06/2020
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Aggrieved Customers of defunct financial institutions, Credit: GNA

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A group calling itself Coalition of Aggrieved Customers of ‘collapsed banks’ in the country has called for the government to act quickly to pay their cash deposits running into millions of cedis.

The 2,221 aggrieved customers, spread across the Bono Region threatened to embark on a protest march to the Jubilee House, the seat of government, if they did not receive their monies within two weeks.

According to the group, comprising customers of the defunct GN Bank and UT Bank, as well as the DKM and God is Love Micro-finance, whose cash deposits were locked-up following the collapse of the financial institutions, President Akufo-Addo had failed to refund their cash deposits.

Last year, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) revoked the licenses of some savings and loans companies in the country.

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The revocation of the licenses of the financial institutions, according to the central bank were necessary because they were insolvent even after a reasonable period within which the BOG had engaged with them in the hope that they would be recapitalized by their shareholders to return them to solvency.

But, at a news conference held at Abesim, near Sunyani, some members of the coalition who wore red armbands and headgears to portray their anger, explained that the life time savings of many of them were locked up at the defunct banks, thereby collapsing their businesses and worsening their socio-economic livelihoods.

“Many of us who entrusted our money and lifetime savings in these banks and financial institutions held on to Government’s promise that our monies would be safe”, Mr. Nicholas Saddari, the convener of the group, said.

“We never anticipated that the Government’s so-called clean-up of the banking and financial sector would take-down so many banks and financial institutions especially on the basis that Government itself indicated that it required between Gh¢9 billion to Gh¢13 billion to solve the crises in the banking and financial sector”.

“Today government is saying they can’t pay us, so they have issued a five-year bond for our locked-up deposits, that is zero or no interest paid on our deposits and investments after we have to wait for the 5 years to receive our money”.

“Then after many of us depositors agitated by saying we cannot wait for five years then government tells us to take the five bonds to Consolidated Bank of Ghana which will discount the bonds by 50 percent of the face value amount of the bond and pay that to us whilst we forfeit or forgo the remaining 50 percent the bond value which CBG will keep”.

Source: GNA

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