Tension at Donewell Insurance
Following TODAY's exposure on Donewell Insurance inability to pay its insurance agents in the Thursday September 17, 2009 edition, the paper can authoritatively report that management of the company has held a crisis meeting that was aimed at addressing the concerns of the agents.
Sources close to Donewell Insurance hinted that the said publication created tension within the top notch of the company. Management members of the company were totally at a loss regarding how such information was leaked to the press.
That, according to our source, compelled management to hold a crisis meeting the following day which was Friday, September 18, 2009 at the company's Head Office in Osu, a suburb of Accra.
TODAY's sources at Donewell Insurance, however, refused to reveal the time that the meeting was held and who chaired that meeting, but admitted that it lasted for one-and-half hours.
The crisis meeting, our source disclosed, sought to deliberate with the insurance agents to see how best the problem could be resolved.
This paper can confirm on authority that management of Donewell Insurance at the end of the meeting assured the insurance agents that the company was taking measures to address their concerns.
In the said publication which had the headline 'DONEWELL INSURANCE UNDER FIRE' the insurance agents expressed their displeasure about the inability of the company to pay them their salaries.
It was against this background that management deemed it prudent to hold an emergency meeting to resolve the problem since the first story cast the image of the company in a bad light.
“If this issue had not been taken up by the media, it would have shown that our efforts was just going to be in vain while our families expected that we feed them and live up to our responsibilities,” one of the concerned insurance agents told TODAY.
“It is very good that it got to this extent where the media had to come to our rescue, because management folded its arms without telling us anything favourable when we had families we needed to cater for,” another insurance agent of Donewell Insurance lamented.
“My brother, you see, it is very disheartening to see a prestigious corporate entity of this nature behaving like that; in fact, we give thanks to the media in this regard for coming to our aid by exposing the company,” a member of staff told this reporter.