Insurance company, SIC Ghana, says it has commenced processes to assess damage done to the Kantamanto branch of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) in Saturday’s fire outbreak and pay insurance claims as may be necessary.
Speaking to the media on Sunday, Head of Corporate and Special Risk at SIC Ghana, Emmanuel Mensah, noted the insurance firm is in talks with management of the bank to ascertain the level of damage.
“We are currently in talks with management of the bank and waiting for them to give us the estimate of the damage done and from thereafter payments will be made to the bank to replace all that was damaged in the inferno,” he stated.
Meanwhile, GCB has assured its customers that Saturday’s fire outbreak did not affect any of their stored data noting that fire outbreak was only on the banks first floor and did not spread to other floors.
Background
The Kantamanto Liberty House branch of the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) on Saturday afternoon caught fire.
Six fire trucks with fire service personnel were reported to be at the bank’s premises in minutes and succeeded in putting out the inferno before it could do any real damage to the bank’s edifice.
GCB Bank later in the evening of the same day through its official Twitter page, told clients that, only the first floor of the building was affected by the fire outbreak and that it was going to update it’s clients on new information received from fire authorities as and when they come.
The cause of the fire outbreak has still not been determined.
