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SIC faces collapse over massive fraud

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  • Ebenezer Kyei 11 years ago

    the system of paying bonuses to 'deserving' people has never helped any company.... the Board has not been ethical at all in their business... the company company should shift to a more conservatism way of rewarding their emp ...
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  • Vuvuzela 11 years ago

    If you undertake investigating all public/state companies I can ascertain YOU WILL find the rot each. Such is the face of the country once called Gold Coast.

    Ghana is fast becoming a failed state if it has not already ach ...
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  • Abutia kudzo 11 years ago

    Very sad if this news report is true. No conscience left alive - All mortgaged to the devil.

  • citizen 11 years ago

    Hope this does not affect peoples' premiums.

  • Nicholas . J. Bedzo 11 years ago

    What so ever they are doing will affect the premiums of the people.

  • BYE 11 years ago

    LET US BE SERIOUS.....DO WE NEED BOARD MEMBERS AT ALL.....

  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    Which INSTITUTION functions PROPERLY in Ghana....APART from "Corruption" AT ALL??
    We read the DAMAGING REPORTS and ALL we do is to GIVE-IT-TO-GOD !!!!No court case for MIS-MANAGEMENT,Financial Damage to the State.....NOTHING ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    What about the SIC workers themselves. They do not like to work. Lazy people. They should continue talking rubbish and let their company collapse so they see what happens in the real world. Do you think people get free money ...
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  • Frankod 11 years ago

    That's black man for you. Always finding ways of cheating on his fellow citizens. This gives clear indications that the company failed on its part to employ honest, fair, God-fearing and just BOARD AND MANAGEMENT to run the c ...
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  • Hebert, Sweden 11 years ago

    Yes Franknord! I cannot understand Ghanaians, we prefer talking than doing. Why should we try to destroy our Nation, where we are born to live happily than nowhere? What sorts of behaviour we have within us? It is very sad in ...
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  • Danny 11 years ago

    The Board must be prosecuted immediately, and must refund every penny. Anyway do we even have a functional financial crimes court in Ghana? God help our nation Ghana.

  • FREEMAN 11 years ago

    These boards which have never successfully run a company in Ghana are worse than arm robbers. All that they think is how to cheat, amass wealth left and right. Our worship of materials in this country makes it impossible to d ...
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  • Agyepong Ntra 11 years ago

    I am surprised that people seem to be surprised at what is happening at SIC. It is all over the place in public institutions where massive revenue is generated. No accountability in Ghana. As a nation we are only surviving by ...
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  • KWAME 11 years ago

    A similar thing which happened in the year 2000 to one of the reliable state bank, Bank for Housing & Construction is to be revisited on SIC.
    Individual greed and selfishness caused the collapse of this state bank.
    It is ti ...
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  • insight to the bone 11 years ago

    national security has failed on all points and is practically nonexistent so much so any fool can see the results of the disintegration of the institutions of state slowly crumbling to the vice-grip of widespread corruption ...
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  • KK 11 years ago

    It is sad things like these are happening, if indeed true. Our financial market and indeed economy cannot develop if such criminal activities take over our corporate sector. What are the regulators doing about such things? Do ...
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  • PAA YAW 11 years ago

    hope this would not affect investments customers have at SIC

  • Yaa Nkosuo 11 years ago

    That's the trouble.

    I am a Policy holder to some of their Insurance policies because I thopught I could trust them than the Private insurance companies in any eventuality, but at this rate, I wonder.

  • Yaa Nkosuo 11 years ago

    It is unbeleivabel. What is government doing about it

  • We are all corrupt!!! 11 years ago

    I always laugh when people say NDC is corrupt, NPP is corrupt and so on, while we fail to appreciate it is the African who is genetically corrupt.

  • ALEX 11 years ago

    INFACT I'M VERY SAD FOR THE NATION AND THE POOR GHANAIANS POEPLE, MORE OF SUCH NEWS WILL BE HAPPEN BECAUSE WOYOME IS WALKING FREE ON THE STREET.

  • Nana,Legon 11 years ago

    thank you bruv.well said.cos we dont punish wrong..instead we jail petty crimes like stealing a foul for a pot of soup!!! interesting gh

  • Ern 11 years ago

    This is widespread in Ghana. What are the auditing firms doing? We have all the big 4, including PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst&Young. In addition there are so many mid-tier and smaller auditing firms. What do these auditors d ...
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  • Peter Vanwor 11 years ago

    Dear President Mahama, this is for you to get this country out of this state of affairs. Proof your worth.

  • Nana,Legon 11 years ago

    a country which thrives on corruption will always run its states institution down.bravo!!!!!!!!!!!! we have done it again.better ghana people,better ghana company ......long live corruption.