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East Police Command reinforced security in Krobo-Odumase, where police and agitated residents clashed on Wednesday.
The violent clashes ensued when residents blocked the city road to prevent officers from the PDS, escorted by police, from turning off the main transformer that was powering the city. in electricity.
The disconnection exercise was caused by unpaid electricity bills since 2014.
The incident killed one of the protesters, while several others were injured to varying degrees.
Five police officers were also injured.
The DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, East Region Police Public Relations Officer, told Adom FM on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, that the body of the 14-year-old victim was killed in clashes. has since been deposited at St. Martins De-Porres Hospital Morgue in Agormanya Odumase-Krobo.
He said that there was a disturbing calm in the city but the police are determined to maintain peace and order.
The Tetteh DSP could not confirm what caused the boy's death, but said that residents had attacked the police with various items.
"The missiles that came came from all directions, so I can not say whether a police bullet hit anyone or not," he said.
"They were carrying knives, stones, bottles and other instruments that could harm someone's life, and we have them at our disposal as an exhibition," he said. at the Adom FM. Hot problems.
Ebenezer Okletey Tei-Larbi, MP for the Lower Manya constituency, expressed his disappointment with the incident.
He denied reports that residents allegedly fired missiles at the police.
He told Akua Boakyewaa Yiadom, host of Hot questions, that he had previously asked the Utilities Regulation to ask PDS, the electricity distributor, to maintain the disconnection.
PDS had to reach an agreement with the population to pay the bills in several installments.
"I was surprised that they continued with the disconnect," he said.
He further refuted claims that residents deliberately refused to pay the bills, claiming that some of them were repaying their debts over the years.
However, some residents said that there was a protocol of agreement on the payment of electricity bills between their ancestors and the Volta River Authority (VRA) when the government took a part of their land for the construction of the dam of Akosombo.
At the same time, PRO of the United Krobo Foundation (UKF), a group accused of creating chaos, Tei Kwao Kbadim, said he was innocent of all the charges because they [UKF] have been prosecuted by PDS and will appear in court tomorrow, Thursday, May 23, 2019, not giving them time to engage in such acts.
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