Thousands of customers of DKM, Jastar Motors, God Is Love Fun Club, who lost their investments in a scam, have vowed to vote against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for failing to impress upon the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to pay the monies to them.
Speaking at a meeting at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo region over the weekend, the spokesperson of the group of victims, Nana Nketia Mensah said that the government was behind the scam.
He said barely two months to the general elections, the NDC government has asked DKM to paste the list of names of some of the victims on the walls of their offices, adding that victims have been asked to go to the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) to collect 20 percent of their deposits.
The whole thing is trickery and has fallen flat because people can read between the lines, according to Nana Nketia.
In his view, President Mahama insulted them when he told Parliament recently that even his illiterate uncle in his home town would never fall for the scam.
Nana Nketia informed the president that lawyers, medical doctors, lecturers, businessmen and women, military and police officers deposited their monies with the fraudulent companies.
If the president is telling these fine brains that even his uncle who is an illiterate would never do what they did, then he has insulted the intelligence of these persons, he added.
He said the First Lady, Lordina Mahama visited Berekum when DKM and others were in full swing and told traders that the government had introduced the investment companies in order to put monies into their pockets.
“Why is it that anytime the NDC is in power, such things occur in the country?” The Piram scam rocked the country when the NDC was in power,” he declared.
Nana Nketia used the opportunity to urge all DKM depositors to vote massively for Nana Addo, adding that “Nana Addo told us during his campaign tour of the region that when he assumes office, he will make sure the Bank of Ghana (BoG) pays the victims without interest.”
From Eric Bawah, Kintampo