Some disappointed clients of the DKM Microfinance Company in the Upper East region of Ghana have vowed to see to it that President John Dramani Mahama does not sail through the upcoming general elections for another term in office.
They intend to translate their threat into voting “massively” against the president if he fails to help retrieve their long-withheld investments from the liquidated microfinance institution.
This was announced at a news conference convened Wednesday in Bolgatanga, the regional capital, by the disappointed investors calling themselves “Aggrieved Customers of DKM in Upper East” and numbering around 6,000 in the region or about 0.6% of the region’s population. About 1,400 people alone are said to have invested Gh¢11, 829, 371 at DKM in the region.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) shut down the company on Monday May 11, 2015, after it reportedly failed to comply with the terms and conditions required in its licence and also for purportedly possessing assets deemed too insufficient to meet its liabilities to investors.
Devastated depositors across the country have blamed the BoG for alleged failure to ascertain the capabilities of the company from the onset before granting it licence to operate.
Whilst they have sustained their anger particularly against the immediate-past Governor of the BoG, Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah, for causing “the mess”, the disappointed accountholders have also slammed President Mahama, under whose government the disaster struck suddenly, for taking so long to undo “the mess” despite the “several promises” he made.
Assembled from across the region in blazing red bands, the enraged clients took turns to pour out their frustrations at the news conference.
The angry customers have threatened to also stop the NDC from launching its manifesto in the Region.
But Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional secretary for the party, Dennis Twumasi Yeboah says though the angry customers have the right to express their grievances, he believes they cannot stop the party from launching their manifesto.
Source: Adom news
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