{"id":79853,"date":"2015-01-06T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79853"},"modified":"2015-01-06T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:49:33","slug":"melcom-didnt-deliberately-burn-warehouse-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79853","title":{"rendered":"Melcom didn&#8217;t deliberately burn warehouse &#8211; PRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Public Relations Officer of the Melcom Group of Companies Godwin Avenorbor has rejected claims that the company intentionally\u00a0set fire to its warehouse in Accra to benefit from claims from their insurers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;BG9prYnPmi7NSdILp7MUSx4VItRe8tJf&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/03\/photos-melcom-service-centre-gutted-by-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Materials worth millions of cedis were destroyed by an inferno<\/strong><\/a><\/span> at a warehouse belonging to the Melcom group on January 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similar incidents had occurred at the Swedru and Kaneshie branches of the company in 2012 and 2005 respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation has caused some persons to suspect foul play by the company, but speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> Godwin Avenorbor downplayed the claims adding that no insurance company has paid any claims to any of its burnt properties making such claims superfluous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMelcom is a very serious group of companies and am shocked to hear a thing like this because it is not true,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PRO disclosed that most of the company\u2019s fire incidents had not been paid for by any insurance company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere was fire at the Swedru\u00a0 shop in 2012 \u00a0but we have not received one single cedi of insurance claims by way of paying by any company,&#8221; he disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/melcom-fire-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79029 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/melcom-fire-6.jpg\" alt=\"melcom fire 6\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/melcom-fire-6.jpg 576w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/melcom-fire-6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Avenorbor therefore urged the country\u2019s fire authorities to speed up their fire investigations adding, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him people have failed to realize that insurance claims goes through a processes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor every insurance claim the one claiming the money had to make a certain percentage contribution to it\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79009\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom3.jpg\" alt=\"Melcom3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79012\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom7.jpg\" alt=\"Melcom7\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom7.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Melcom7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Patricia Conteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Relations Officer of the Melcom Group of Companies Godwin Avenorbor has rejected claims that the company intentionally\u00a0set fire to its warehouse in Accra to benefit from claims from their insurers. 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