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Police\n say their timely intervention averted what would have been a mass \nsuicide by Menzgold clients one of Accra’s major highways (N1 Highway) \non Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police had been deployed to the headquarters of Menzgold\n to offer protection to property as well as persons, after customers \nwhose funds are locked up with the firm, massed up to protest the \nfailure of the company to pay back their funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the demonstrators had another plan; to block the busy eight-lane George Walker Bush highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director of Operations at the Accra Regional Police Command, Supt. Kwesi Ofori, told Joy News the angry Menzgold customers rushed onto the road to carry out their plan, defying the high-speed at which vehicles were approaching them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026The\n way and manner they rushed onto the highway the police have to \ntactically quickly stop the speeding vehicles if not, we would have \nwitnessed a mass suicide on our road and we are not prepared to \nsupervise this,\u201d Supt. Ofori told JoyNews reporter Nancy Emefa Dzradosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After succeeding in warding the demonstrators off the busy highway, the police chief said he and his colleagues then engaged them \u201cto ensure that they leave [the scene] to live and not to die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of customers of the gold dealership firm have for months now, are unable to access their investments after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered its closure, due to its unregulated business model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menzgold\n had earlier in the month, asked its staff to proceed on leave following\n increasing threats to its properties as well as staff of the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The December 4 statement also added that the company has been advised by the authorities to halt both online and offline trading\u00a0to enable the authorities to assess the system and present a final say to the public and the company. But SEC has said its directives to the company do not in any way stop it from paying monies they had taken from the clients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Police say their timely intervention averted what would have been a mass suicide by Menzgold clients one of Accra’s major highways (N1 Highway) on Monday. 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