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Adakwa residents cry foul over NGO
activity
Suhum, Dec. 17, Ghanadot/GNA – Residents of Adakwa near
Suhum in the Eastern Region have appealed to the Inspector
General of Police to investigate circumstances that led to
the duping of over 200 people, mostly farmers by a
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
Orphans Literacy Assistance Movement (OLAM), the NGO
succeeded in duping the farmers of millions of cedis under
the pretext of giving them loans to expand their farming
activities, trading and other economic ventures.
Narrating the story to the Ghana News Agency, the
Assemblyman for Adakwa electoral area, Mr Seth Owuh said in
June this year, three people called on him at Adakwa and
introduced themselves as members of OLAM, an NGO.
He said one Gabril Ansah, who claimed to be the Director of
the NGO told him that the organization could provide
financial assistance to the people in the community, adding
that they would also help the needy, orphans and also
construct schools and a clinic in the area.
Mr Owuh said Mr Ansah therefore requested him to organize
the people at Adakwa and nearby communities to enable them
to be given the financial assistance.
He said each of the people were made to pay between fifty
thousand and sixty thousand cedis as deposit and that over
200 people paid the amount and were promised that they would
receive their loans in a month’s time.
Mr Owuh said after collecting the monies, members of the
organization could not be traced, adding that even though
they gave some of the people their office and mobile phone
numbers and their resident locations at Tema all attempts to
trace them had failed.
GNA
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