Union Diagniostic(my Sordid Experience)
My People, I Applied For The Uds Pp Last Year. I Had Worked Inthe Stock Market For Years And In Order To Guard Against Unforseen Issues, I Decided To Go To Intercontinental Head Office To Pay For My Pp And I Duly Obtained My Deposit Slip.
Suprisingly, When People Started Getting Their Certs, I Didnt See Mine, I Sent Someone With A Letter Of Authority To First Registrars, They Shockingly Told The Person That My Name Is Not On Their System That I Should Get In Touch With Uds. I Personally Went To Intercontinental And Asked After What They Did With My Money; They Claimed That It Was Remitted To Their Branch At Tejuosho, And That That Is Where The Whole Pp Money Is Domiciled For Onward Remmittance To Uds. I Proceeded To The Branch Only For Them To Tell Me That They Have Remmitted All The Money To The Company And That I Should Go There. Luckily, They Are Sharing The Same Street With Uds And I Just Strolled Into Uds. I Met The Accountant Who Took My Photocopies And Promised Me That They Have Some Few Cases Like That And That They Will Sort It Out Very Soon If Its Proved That I Paid Into Their Account Then They Will Instruct First Registrars To Print My Certs For Me.
With My Little Knowledge Of Accounting, I Pointed It Out To Him That Ordinary Reconciliation Ought To Show Them That There Were Some Left Overs In Their Pp Account Which Ordinarily Should Arouse Their Curiosity Since August, 2007. He Claimed That Icb Headquarters Remitted The Funds Without The Forms I Filled(i Submitted Two Forms). To Butress My Claims, I Gave Them Photocoies Of My Form And My Deposit Slip With Their(uds) Account Number Boldly Written I Equally Included My Intercontinental Bank Statement Evidencing The Debit Of The Funds The Same Day, He Promised Me That The Stuff Will Be Printed Out Soonest And That I Will Be Called To Pick It Up Shortly. I Reassuringly Went Home With Expectation. After Two Weeks Without Hearing From Them, I Called The Accountant, Who Kept On Telling Me That Its About Being Sorted Out, Week In Week Out, It Was One Yarn Or The Other, Later I Noticed That The Accounatnt Was Posting Me (come Today And Tomorrow) As I Expected, He Later Stopped Picking My Calls And Would Not Returny Calls(in Fact, He Never Called Me, I Did All The Callings). It Got So Frustrating That After About Six Weeks, I Managed To Squeeze Out Time To Go Back To Uds, I Didnt Meet The Guy But I Met With The Admin Manager Who Sounded Nice, And Made References To The Fact That If Its Proven That I Paid Money Then They Will Do Something, I Got Infuriated With That Statement And Told Him What The Accountant Promised Me Before Which Didnt Materialise, And The Valid Documents I Included Which Was Enough For Them To Work On. He Said He Will Get Back To Me. I Gave Him Another Set Of The Documents And I Left (on A Lighter Note; They All Have New Shiny Cars Now, Dividends Of Our Pp Funds)
Two Weeks After, They Didnt Call, I Was Forced To Send A Text To The Accountant Threating Legal Action And Requesting To See Their Md, He Didnt Call. I Called Up The Admin Guy, Who Told Me That The Accountant Is Incharge Of The Pp And That He Is The Appropriate Person To Tackle The Issue. I Intimated Him The About The Hide And Seek Game The Guy Has Been Playing With Me. He Now Promised That They Have Summoned Intercontinetal Bank To Come Before Friday(today) With All Their Schedules To Sort This Out. I Am Awaiting The Outcome.
Its Being A Sordid Affair, I Didnt See My Money Returned Or Certificate Either. Painfilly, I Gathered Money For The Pp And The Individuals Are Hounding Me, It Has Become An Intergrity Issue For Me. I Humbly Suggest That Affected Individulas Sholud Come Together And Present A Common Fornt For This. When Next I Go There, It Will Be Showdown, And Its Their Md Am Seeing Next Time. Pity I Didnt Go To Their Agm, Cause I Would Have Raised The Issue There.
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