TRADER APPEALS FOR PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICE TO SUE FIRST ALLIED

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 A 24-year old senior high graduate, Comfort Acquah, is appealing to philanthropic Legal practitioners to institute a legal action against the First Allied Savings and Loans Limited, a private non-bank financial institution, for causing her to lose her admission to pursue a career in Health Assistantship. 

In an interview with Ashanti Today, Miss Acquah noted that upon completion of senior high school education in 2014, she joined her aunt in Kumasi during which period she has had to sell wares to raise income, part of which she has been saving with the Asafo branch of the First Allied Savings and Loans financial services towards her tertiary education. The itinerant cosmetic seller whose parents are subsistence farmers in the Western region, said she has been able to save 'two thousand 300 Ghana Cedis from her daily sales.'

 Miss Acquah said 'a friend recommended First Allied' to her for her personal savings which she readily accepted. She lamented however, that when she needed her money most to complete her Admission into the Lawra Nursing Training School in the Upper West region, the financial institution has failed to honour her withdrawal request despite presenting her Admission Letter to the branch management on request. 

According to her, due to this situation, she has missed the admission deadline which elapsed at the end of last month, thereby depriving her an opportunity of realizing her dream of becoming a nurse, at least, by one year. 

Fuming with anger, Miss Acquah stressed her desire to bring a legal action against the management of the First Allied Savings and Loans Limited for the damage caused her dream for no fault of hers. She therefore appealed to philanthropic legal experts to come to her aid to sue the company for compensation to serve as deterrent to other organizations which have been taking their innocent customers for granted. 

When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of First Allied Savings and Loans Company, Jones Yeboah, denied remours that the company was collapsing, insisting that it was rather going through liquidity challenges as a result of panic withdrawal by the company’s customers who acted on false information. 

The PRO had assured earlier that his outfit was working with training institutions where wards of customers or customers themselves had been offered Admissions for  payment of the fees directly by First Allied Savings and Loans limited. The, company however reneged on this assurance thereby leaving customers such as Miss Comfort Acquah stranded and frustrated.


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