{"id":15779,"date":"2020-06-24T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=15779"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T08:49:13","slug":"banking-crisis-has-killed-about-18k-ghanaians-asepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=15779","title":{"rendered":"Banking crisis has killed about 18k Ghanaians \u2013 ASEPA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Policy think tank ASEPA has claimed about 18,000 Ghanaians have died as a result of the banking sector cleanup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ASEPA boss, scores of victims of the exercise have also been ejected from their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c18,000 workers of the affected cleanup exercise have died. 6,500 orphans are currently struggling to fend for themselves in the unbridled cleanup exercise sanctioned by the Akufo-Addo led government. Many have been ejected from their homes and the sick are unable to access their cash to access health care,\u201d Mr Thompson said at a press conference in Accra Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysing the data, Mr Thompson said 4,500 direct and 2,000 indirect jobs were lost from the revocation of 16 bank licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that additional 4000 direct and 3,800 indirect jobs were lost after the revocation of licenses of 23 Savings and Loan companies nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was quick to add that 9,000 of the affected workers were currently homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/starrfm.com.gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AS1-564x1024.jpg?resize=564%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361909\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ASEPA said the data was collected from previous customers of these collapsed banks and financial institutions and previous employees and agents of the financial institutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASEPA\u2019s study comes following renewed agitations by customers and staff of the collapsed financial institutions for their locked-up funds and severance packages respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy think tank ASEPA has claimed about 18,000 Ghanaians have died as a result of the banking sector cleanup. 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