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General News on Thursday, June 13, 2019
Source: starrfm.com.gh
2019-06-13
The student lying on the hospital bed
The right leg of a candidate for the certificate examination of the Basic Education Certificate (BECE), drawn by the police during a demonstration organized by residents of the country. Odumase-Krobo against the mbad disconnection exercise of the Power Distribution Service (PDS), was amputated from the leg by surgeons at St. Joseph Hospital Hospital.
The amputation began Wednesday morning by orthopedic surgeons after several diagnoses and no treatment cured the injured lameness due to the severity of the injury.
Ruth Makathar, an 18-year-old English-speaking JHS student Odumase Krobo, was preparing to write the BECE that began on June 10, 2019, but unfortunately received a lost bullet in both legs after being caught in police clashes with consumers the market return did not participate in the review.
The ball penetrated his right knee, while the left leg was slightly injured by another bullet, barely missing. she has since been paralyzed.
Ruth was first transported to St. Martins De Porres Hospital with six other people injured to varying degrees, but she was later transferred to St. Joseph's Orthopedic Hospital.
Kpongunor's angry youth held a spontaneous protest to petition the Kwaku town chief of the municipality, Kwaku Simon Tetteh, about their concerns about extra billing by the PDS and its ongoing mbad disconnection exercise.
Young people set up roadblocks and threw stones and sticks at PDS staff in Yohe, a community near Odumase Krobo, when PDS staff went to the community to end to his exercise of mbad disconnection.
Angry kids broke a Nissan Pick Up PDS with registration number GV 2318-1. It took the intervention of armed police to rescue the PDS personnel.
PDS has decided to turn off the transformer by cutting off power to the entire area.
Shortly after the attack, angry youth mobilized to hold a protest to petition the MCE, but armed police eagerly protected the Municipal Assembly's office. by preventing young people from entering the premises.
This led to clashes between the youth and the police. Numerous warnings were issued to disperse the youths who also attacked the police with stones and other instruments.
A 24-year-old man was shot dead in the process and seven others were injured.
Thirty-five (35) people were arrested during the riot.
Three people were injured after a similar chaos Monday in Manya Kpongunor following a mbad disconnection exercise led by Power Distribution Services (PDS).
Reports indicated that the police building team fired tear gas after being attacked by the youths.
The PDS engaged in a mbad disconnection exercise with armed police in Somanya, Odumase Krobo and surrounding areas.
The exercise called "revenue mobilization" according to the Somans District PDS Director, Ing. Edward Ochire, had become necessary due to the inability of many residents to pay their electricity bills since 2017.
According to him, a situation would have resulted in loss of income for the company.
Hundreds of homes were disconnected during the exercise that began on May 13, 2019 in the communities of Kpong and Nuaso.
A person was put behind bars for trying to resist the disconnection of his house. Since the beginning of the fiscal year, many concerned residents have gone to PDS offices to pay their accumulated bills ranging from 3,000 to 20,000 GHC.
There has long been a quarrel between residents and workers of the ECG, now PDS. In 2017, angry residents of Somanya attacked the PDS office for overcharging.
Police vehicles were burned and property destroyed during violent attacks. Since then, many residents have refused to pay their electricity bills and threatened to attack PDS staff who were trying to unplug their homes.
The Minister of Energy, Peter Amawu, then went to the troubled community and promised to set up a committee to investigate the incident that remains to be done.
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