The Public Relations Officer of the Melcom Group of Companies Godwin Avenorbor has rejected claims that the company intentionally set fire to its warehouse in Accra to benefit from claims from their insurers.
[contextly_sidebar id=”BG9prYnPmi7NSdILp7MUSx4VItRe8tJf”]Materials worth millions of cedis were destroyed by an inferno at a warehouse belonging to the Melcom group on January 3.
Similar incidents had occurred at the Swedru and Kaneshie branches of the company in 2012 and 2005 respectively.
The situation has caused some persons to suspect foul play by the company, but speaking to Citi News Godwin Avenorbor downplayed the claims adding that no insurance company has paid any claims to any of its burnt properties making such claims superfluous.
“Melcom is a very serious group of companies and am shocked to hear a thing like this because it is not true,” he argued.
The PRO disclosed that most of the company’s fire incidents had not been paid for by any insurance company.
“There was fire at the Swedru shop in 2012 but we have not received one single cedi of insurance claims by way of paying by any company,” he disclosed.
Mr Avenorbor therefore urged the country’s fire authorities to speed up their fire investigations adding, “I think that fire service should speed up the process of investigating fire because there have been several power outages that may have been the cause the fire.”
According to him people have failed to realize that insurance claims goes through a processes
“For every insurance claim the one claiming the money had to make a certain percentage contribution to it”
“The fire that happened at dawn on Saturday, a huge edifice was destroyed which insurance money is going to give us the money to rebuild? He questioned.
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By: Patricia Conteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana