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Aggrieved customers of the Fanteakwa Rural Bank whose investments were diverted are planning a massive demonstration against the MP for the area and the NPP Flasgbearer North, Nana Akufo Addo.

The brewing tension followsfresh revelations that their monies totaling over 400,000 cedis was gambled in anticipation that Nana Addo will easily pay if he won the 2012 elections. Reports say an earlier protest march was foiled when the Consultant to the MP wrote a letter to the Police to intervene.

The Republic Newspaper has credible information about moves by some NPP stalwarts in the area to influence victims aligned to the party to back out to save their image.

They fear the escalation of the matter could seriously affect the party’s fund raising campaign especially at a time when donor fatigue has set in and key party founders who are at logger heads with Nana Akufo Addo are dragging their feet.

But a member of the Concerned Youth Group of the NPP, Baa Acheamfuor has vowed to expose the truth. Mr Acheamfuor told Accra based OKAY FM, he has evidence of the petition to the Police which confirms the NPP MP and CEO of the Fanteakwa Rural Bank, Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah is trying to cover up.

“There were huge withdrawals in 2011/12 during the NPP primaries. Workers of the Bank were alarmed. We are not kids. I have a copy of the petition the MP through his consultant, Lazarus Atta Kofi Aduful sent to the Police to suspend the demonstration” Baa Acheamfuor revealed.

Mr Acheaamfuor challenged his party’s flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo to dissociate himself from the MP and the fraud if indeed he did not receive funding from the MP.

“They are selecting NPP members among the victims and begging them not to disgrace Nana Addo. The MP lied when he said the amount involved is far below 400,000 cedis. I know a palm wine tapper whose 7,000 cedis has not been paid over the last five years. His son got admission to the University of Cape Coast but he is still at home. I know an Agric Extension Officer, now on pension, whose 8,000 cedis is locked and could not even raise money to bury his late wife.”

He further charged, “Nana Addo was at Nkoranza and promised to pay victims of the DKM scam if he becomes President. If it is not true, he must come out openly and condemn the MPs act.”

Baa Acheamfour told host of the OKAY FM morning show programme, Kwame Nkrumah Tikese that he is personally aggrieved because he knows three people who died because they had no money to cater for themselves.

“Nana Akufo Addo says the NHIS has collapsed. Victims need their money to pay for hospital bills. People living as far as Begro, Essiam, Kofi kro, Suhum, Anyinam and Nkawkaw are affected. I won’tsit down for the image of my flagbearer or the party be dragged into the mud. That’s why I want Nana Addo to dissociate himself,” he added.

The bank which was established in the year 2004 was doing well, according to some of the customers until after the 2012 elections when the MP allegedly loaned the money to the opposition leader, Nana Akuffo-Addo. Most of the customers have between five hundred Ghana cedis (GHS500.00) to twenty-seven thousand Ghana cedis (GHS27, 000.00) at the bank.

The Anyinam branch alone owes an amount of four hundred and ninety-five thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one point eighty-three Ghana cedis (GHS495,781.83.00). The MP Fanteakwa North Constituency is said to have assured the people that the only way to retrieve their monies is to be calm for Nana Akuffo-Addo to win power in the 2016 elections.

It will be recalled that suspended party Chairman, Paul Afoko, has accused Nana Akufo-Addo of what he describes as the “illegal” and “criminal” decision to reactivate an account at Ecobank, into which the party’s finances were diverted.

In a recent interview with the Africa Watch Magazine, Mr Afoko said “shockingly”, a letter written by the lawyers of the party to a sub-committee of the National Executive Committee (NEC) exposed Mr Akufo-Addo’s complicity in reviving the controversial account into which, he claimed, the national treasurer and his accomplices diverted party funds.

One of such multiple accounts, he said, had about $46,000 in it while the party’s official account was virtually empty.