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Regional News from Thursday, April 4, 2019
Source: starrfm.com.gh
2019-04-04
One of the protesters who was shot dead in the hospital
Two demonstrators during last night's spontaneous demonstration against the power cut in the Krobo region were shot dead.
Both; Kwame Asare, 39, and Teye Kwame, 35, were injured by bullets allegedly unloaded by the angry young man after several warning shots failed to disperse protesters at Somanya roundabout .
The wounded are currently admitted to the Atua government hospital in Akuse.
The protest began in Nuaso, Odumase Krobo, before spreading to other neighboring communities, including Somanya, while angry young people from Nuaso near Kpong triggered a Nuaso riot heading to Odumase and Somanya. to attack the PDS / ECG office.
Somanya District Commander, ASP Isaac Otsin, quickly led a team of police officers to the Somanya roundabout, where some of the rioters were met and burned about 40 car tires on the main Accra roads. Somanya and Odumase.
A team of reinforcements consisting of 85 men from the counterterrorism unit and belonging to the Akosombo, Akuse and Akropong division, arrived at the scene.
The angry youths who were holding machetes and other offensive weapons when they saw the police began throwing stones at them.
The police, however, advanced on the angry youth and managed to grab 21 truck tires.
According to East Region Police Command's Public Relations Officer, Ebenezer Tetteh, two police officers, Michael Bright Bortey and Edmund Asamoah, were hit by stones in the right ear and on the left. left ear.
He added that, while the police opposed the application of brutal force, some of the rioters confronted the police with machetes, carpentry, broken bottles and other weapons. offensive. The police realized that their lives were in immediate danger and were retaliated to disperse them. both protesters were injured.
Starr News found that despite the injuries recorded, some of the protesters remained on the street until Thursday 4 pm.
A group called Kloma Hengme Youth issued a statement that "following our press statement on the electricity situation some time ago, the Minister of Energy; JOHN PETER AMEWU, through his spokesman to the ministry, Nana Kofi Oppong Damoah, has organized an emergency meeting with Kloma Hengme's leadership at the Ministry of Energy, tomorrow Thursday » .
The minister also sent his spokesperson and other experts from the Ministry of Energy to Krobo to inform him of the concrete situation of the problem before the crucial meeting tomorrow. , Thursday ".
Two years ago, a feud between residents and workers of the ECG, now PDS, ensued when angry residents of Somanya attacked the former ECG office for overcharging.
Police vehicles were burned and property destroyed during the violent attack.
Since the incident, residents have held press conferences and petitioned the president and the VRA to ask them to rebel against the payment of electricity bills, claiming that the VRA had reached an agreement with their ancestors granting them free power, after dispossessing them of their lands. construction of the Akosombo dam.
A group called United Krobo Foundation, made up of leaders of various Krobo groups, defends the course, calling on the VRA to respect its memorandum of understanding with the Krobo people.
According to them, the VRA "owes Krobos, in its catchment area, a free electricity supply after fifty years of operation in the field".
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