Headmistress Wants GNAT To Replace Car
The Headmistress of Opah M/A Primary School at Amasaman in the Ga East District in the Greater Accra Region, has asked the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) to replace a faulty car it offered her under its Car Loan Scheme.
Ms Rose Osei, who has worked as a teacher for 34 years, said GNAT had given her a raw deal.
She said she took delivery of a home-used black Honda Civic saloon car from the scheme on September 7, 2010, but realised in less than 24 hours that the car was faulty.
She is therefore demanding a refund of GH¢4,000 that she paid as deposit and another GH¢630 for insurance and Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) road worthy certificate.
After several visits at the request of officials of the Car Loan Scheme to collect a refund or replacement for her car, nothing has been done, but to her dismay, GNAT has started making deductions from her May salary.
Narrating her ordeal to the Daily Graphic in Accra, Ms Osei said she bought the saloon car from GNAT at GH¢8,200, excluding insurance and DVLA certificates, and took delivery of it from the GNAT car park at Nungua on September 7, 2010, after she had deposited almost half of the amount on July 30, 2010.
She said she drove the car from Nungua to Ofankor, also in the Greater Accra Region, but on reaching Achimota, she realised the engine was faulty as the dashboard read “Check engine”.
She managed to get home with the car but the next day the engine did not start, so she called Bismark, who is a GNAT official in charge of the cars, and after reporting the fault to him, he said it was not a problem and gave her a number to call someone by name Fiifi, who was in charge of the cars at the car port.
She said Fiifi confirmed that there was no problem so she waited till the next day when she tried to spark the car again but it still did not start.
She, therefore, got a new battery and replaced it with the one on the car but still the car did not start, so she again called Fiifi, who promised that he would send a mechanic to her house at Ofankor but for more than two months, nobody showed up.
Ms Osei said she became worried and therefore called the two persons persistently after which Bismark showed up and asked for a mechanic, who confirmed that all the 16 valves in the car’s engine were burnt.
She said Bismark left her house and promised that the scheme would replace the car for her the following week, but after some time when she realised nothing was happening she towed the car in December back to Nungua.