In a morning of drama‚ the National Consumer Commission (NCC) on Monday apparently refused to accept dozens of complaints from Ford Kuga owners. Lawyer Rod Montano‚ along with Renisha Jimmy whose brother Reshall Jimmy died in 2015 when his Kuga caught fire‚ arrived early on Monday at the commission’s head office in Pretoria to hand over 46 complaints from Kuga owners whose vehicles have caught alight. The complaints go back as far as 2013. Commission spokesman Trevor Hattingh refused to allow the complaints to be handed over. Speaking on his phone from his office to Montano in the commission’s reception‚ Hattingh ordered Montano and Jimmy off the property. Montano said he had been told that security was to escort them off the property. "What is happening is puzzling. We represent all Ford Kuga fire victims‚ whose only voice in these circumstances is the commission‚ which is appointed to represent aggrieved members of the public. "On our arrival at the commission’s offices‚ after our...
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