Akyem Bosome Rural Bank sacks 9 workers for theft
The Akyem Bosome Rural Bank in the Eastern Region has sacked nine members of staff at four of its branches for alleged stealing. The dismissed staff are Bright Azah, Aminu Mohammed and Robert Asante (Oda branch), Emmanuel Twumasi, Felix Awuye and Enoch Clinton Darko (Asamankese branch), Nii Ayi Kumah and Ellen Whyte (Akroso branch) and Richard Awuye (Akyem Swedru branch).
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bankr. George Kumi Brobbey, M announced this at the bank’s 27th annual general meeting at Akyem Swedru.
He said the names of the dismissed staff had been sent to the Bank of Ghana and the ARB Apex Bank to prevent the dismissed staff from gaining employment in any bank in the country.
Court action
Besides, Mr Brobbey said the sacked employees were facing court action instituted by the bank to retrieve the stolen money.
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He stressed that the bank had also instituted stringent measures to prevent any member of staff from stealing or embezzling the bank’s funds.
The ceremony attracted many dignitaries including the Queenmother of the Akyem Bosome Traditional Area, Nana Kwartemaa Munkyim and four Members of Parliament (MP’s).
The parliamentarians were Mr Kennedy Osei Nyarko, Mr William Agyapong Quaittoo, Mr David Oppong Kusi and Mr Robert Kwasi Amoah, the MPs for Akyem Swedru, Oda, Akyem Ofoase/Ayirebi and Akyem Achiase, respectively.
According to Mr Brobbey, the bank continued to grow in all aspects of its business in the face of the unfavourable microeconomic environment, as well as fierce competition resulting from the licensing of several savings and loans companies and microfinance institutions by the Bank of Ghana.
The Board Chairman said that the bank declared profit after tax of GH¢384,424.
The MP for Ofoase/Ayirebi, Mr Oppong Kusi, was elected as a new board member of the bank, while Ms Aba Amissah Quainoo retained her position as a board member in a keenly contested election conducted by the Deputy Eastern Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, Mr John Appiah Baffoe.
The management of the bank honoured a number of its outstanding customers at the function.