Government has been given a June 30 deadline by the Aggrieved Customers of Gold Coast Fund Management to release their locked-up funds or live to regret their actions afterwards.
The customers have warned that if their investments are not paid by June 30, 2024, with interest, they will campaign against the government in the upcoming elections.
Over 50,000 of customers have their investments locked up following the revocation of the company’s license by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in November, 2019.
The company was among 53 others who had their licenses revoked for various infractions, including their inability to pay clients their investments.
The revocation, was, however, followed with a promise by the government to pay customers their monies.
But the aggrieved customers cannot understand why government has refused to settle them after almost 5 years after the incident.
In an interview with Akoma FM’s Nana Antwi Boasiako, during a press conference in Kumasi Sunday, April 07, 2024, Charles Nyame, convener of the Gold Coast Fund Management customers said over 900 customers have lost their lives due to their inability to access their funds for medical treatment.
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He questioned the actions of Dr. Bawumia, who is part of the team that led the financial clean-up exercise in 2017, calling him an “economic hero” who ignores the cries of his people.
The customers feel betrayed by the system and the promises made by the NPP. They believe that the initiatives offered in replacement of their lost investments are not enough to address the hunger and despair they face.
They have vowed to make their votes a “scream” in the upcoming elections, as they refuse to be silenced by apathy any longer.
They demand the return of every single cedi they invested, with interest, by the deadline of June 30, 2024, reminding the government that the Customers whose funds have been locked up constitute an “opposition party.”
” Dr. Bawumia, they call you an economic hero, but what kind of hero ignores the cry of his people? We trusted the system and invested our hard-earned money for a secure future but here we are only to be cast aside like dead news. They dangle the public toilet in front of us like some kind of charity.”
“With all due respect Your Excellency, we are not fools. We see through the empty promises. In this year’s election, our votes would not be a choice, it will be a scream born from the death of despair fuelled by years of neglect. We will not be silenced by apathy any more. June 30th is the deadline, give us back our money, every single cedi with interest.”
“We have over 900 of our people, those are the ones that we have their records of their obituaries, they are dead and gone.”
