The aggrieved customers of the Gold Coast Fund Management Company are threatening to block workers of the Finance Ministry from leaving their offices to their homes today as they continue with their 48-hour non-stop picketing to demand their locked-up funds. 

This was after some customers of the collapsed company spent Tuesday night at the Ministry of Finance. 

According to the group, they will not return to their homes until their locked up funds are released to them. 

They allege that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not paid members whose funds were locked up despite the GH¢8.6 billion approved by Parliament to pay them. 

Speaking to JoyNews, leader of the group, Charles Nyame said the decision to force workers of the Ministry of Finance to spend the night at the office is to press home their demand.

"Look at the ages of these people and we have been here for 24 hours now and we have not had any leader in the government of Akufo-Addo coming to say a soothing word that will calm us down.

"But we are promising the Ministry of Finance that if we are sleeping here today, we will sleep here with them. No policeman can stop us. If we are sleeping here today, we will sleep with the workers, even the IGP cannot stop us, unless they shoot us.

"Everybody in this building will sleep here today, they will not go to their homes, they will also feel what we are going through today."

Another customer who spoke to JoyNews appealed to government to release their locked up funds.

“I am crying because of my money, I need money to pay my children's school fees. I don't have it whiles I have money here. That is why I am crying and pleading for them to see us. We are asking them to have pity on us and give us our money. It is our sweat and our blood," she added.

Meanwhile, banking consultant, Dr Richmond Atuahene is urging Parliament to demand a more detailed accountability from the Finance Minister over the expenditure of the allocated money for the banking sector cleanup.

According to him, it is important for the Minister to explain to the nation how these funds were disbursed.

"It is very very sad that the Finance Minister will say I have spent 25billion and nobody is asking him, 'where did this money go'?

"It is very unfortunate and we have a whole Parliament which is supposed to look at accountability and this thing has been left. We heard one of the MPs saying that Parliament has approved it but why has Parliament not asked for a detailed report of how these monies were disbursed.

"What we see today, some people have the same issues even with the defunct banks that they said they have paid. But the money has been blocked by certain groups of people calling themselves SEC or whatever, where they put unnecessary impediment on people receiving their money.

"So I believe that it is about time the Minister is called to Parliament to state the detailed expenses of the money. It has been five years now, and nobody is talking about it."