COMMERCIAL activities by hawkers and traders around the premises of the Koforidua branch of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) are posing a serious security threat to the operations of the bank.
Therefore, efforts by the bank’s management to provide adequate conducive and safe environment for business transaction over the years have been severely compromised.
Apart from the human and vehicular traffic caused by the activities of the hawkers and traders, access to the bank by its numerous customers has also become a major problem facing the management of the bank.
A Retail Manager of the bank, Mr John Teye Doku, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in Koforidua, recounted how a criminal snatched money a woman had withdrawn from the bank just after she had emerged from the bank’s premises in December, last year.
He, therefore, appealed to the police and the New Juaben Municipal Assembly to relocate the traders to ensure security on the bank’s premises.
“Our operation as a bank has always come under serious challenge over the years, since some of our customers often complain of insecurity transacting business with the bank,” Mr Teye Doku stressed.
He stated that all efforts by the bank’s management in the past to solicit the assistance of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly to relocate the traders had yielded no results.
According to Mr Teye Doku, in spite of the fact that the management of the bank had been paying its property rate to the assembly, which had also been collecting tolls from the traders and hawkers, it had made no attempt to relocate the traders.
“So if anybody invades our premises, we have every legal right to eject them. It is because we want to be a law-abiding institution that is why we want to seek the support of the police and the assembly to address the problem,” he stated.
Mr Teye Doku further appealed to the assembly to relocate the Metro Transit buses, whose activities also contributed to human and vehicular traffic around the bank’s premises, to another place.
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