20 Menzgold customers bailed, 85 remain in custody

85, out of some 105 aggrieved Menzgold customers who were arrested after they picketed at the Trasacco residence of gold dealership firm’s CEO, NAM1 remain locked up several hours after they were locked up.

One of the customers who spoke to GhanaWeb indicated that out of the total who were arrested, only 20 of them have been bailed.

Preferring to remain anonymous, the Menzgolder disclosed that the remaining 85 were yet to receive sureties to be bailed; adding that majority of them were from Kumasi in the Ashanti region.

It is unclear when the remaining remanded Menzgold customers will be released.

Over 400 angry customers from different regions converged at the premises of CEO of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah Wednesday morning over unpaid monies.

The customers who arrived in 3 separate buses; two VIPs and a minivan forced their way into the gated residence of Trasacco Valley in Accra after overpowering the security personnel manning the gates.

But for the intervention of the Police, the charged crowd were ready to move heaven and earth to get their monies back. This was after an unidentified resident member of NAM1's household fired a warning shot from the house.



Head of Operations at the Accra Regional Police Command, ACP Kwesi Ofori who led personnel from the Greater Accra Regional Police Command into the estate, and called for the arrests of the group, noted that the customers had unlawfully besieged a private residence.

He explained that the customers will be held at the Accra Regional Police Command for the time being for investigations to commence.