By: Kobina Baidoo
Locked-Up Investment Holders have officially aborted their picketing exercise initially scheduled to take place on Wednesday May 22, 2024 at the Ministry of Finance to demand the release of their frozen investment yields.
Locked-Up Investment Holders present a forum that protects individuals who have made investments with Finance Houses, Savings & Loans Companies licensed by the Bank of Ghana.
As stated in a previous release issued by the group, an initial picketing exercise was organized on Wednesday May 15, to occur in a recurring sequence every week. “We had informed the Police that we will be picketing the ministry every Wednesday till the end of November 2024 if our request is not met, and therefore were to picket the Ministry tomorrow, Wednesday, May 22, 2024.”
The latest press release from the group confirms that plans for the second picketing exercise have been disrupted by a phone call from the Deputy Minister of Finance, Abena Osei-Asare who requests for a scheduled sitting with the Locked-Up Investment Holders on Monday, May 27, 2024.
The group has therefore suspended all picketing exercises at the Finance Ministry in the month of May, as they prepare for meaningful discussions with the Deputy Minister of Finance. “We however wish to inform the press that following a call today from the Deputy Minister for Finance to have a meeting with is after returning from a trip on May 27, 2024, to discuss our petition, we are suspending the picketing for tomorrow, May 22, 2024 and Wednesday May 29, 2024.”