Gunshots Ring At NAM 1’S House As Police Arrest 200 Aggrieved Menzgold Customers

The report of a gun was heard at the Trassaco home of embattled Chief Executive Officer of the defunct Mengold gold collectibles company this morning, when aggrieved customers of the company besieged the place to demand payment of their locked up investments.

It is not clear who exactly pulled the trigger but panicky customers who had marched to the house report that a private security officer manning the house was the source of the shot.

The loud report of the gun sent the thronging crowd of aggrieved customers scrambling away for dear life.

Later, an emergency response team from the Greater Accra regional Police command which stormed the place, arrested some 200 of the aggrieved customers. ACP Kwesi Fori, who was the leader of the Police team, was heard ordering the arrests.

ACP Kwesi Fori was heard later additionally ordering that the home of Nana Appiah Mensah, alias NAM 1, be cordoned off.

The scuffle with the customers is said to have left one of the private security officers at NAM 1’s residence bruised in the hand.

The aggrieved customers are said to have stormed the Trassaco home of NAM 1 because they had heard that he had paid back a number of the Menzgold customers whose investments were locked, but that they had nor heard anything.

Indeed, NAM 1 himself recently took to social media to post that he was satisfied that Menzgold had paid off its customers. However, the customers who thronged the house this morning said they did mot know about any payments.

About 300 of them converged at Shiashie, before beating a path to the plush Trassaco valley gated residential area.

Upon reaching NAM 1’s house, the private security on duty had refused the customers access to the house, leading to a confrontation. It was amidst the confrontation that the gunshot was heard.

Soon after that, the responding team from the Police had stormed the place with taser guns, pepper spray and other weapons, quickly overpowering the crowd and arresting dozens. It is estimated that at least 200 customers were rounded up.

The suspects were sent to the regional Police Command in Accra, as word was heard that they were to be charged with ‘disturbance of the public peace.’