The chief of Dakpema , Naa Fusieni Bawa has on Tuesday Sept 27, 2021, passed a word of caution to the aggrieved youth of Tamale over any further attacks on the staff of the Electricity Distribution Company in the Northern Belt.
The chief who described the agitations by the youth as embarrassing and inappropriate, calm to prevail to help propel development.
He indicated during a press briefing that “though the brutalities meted out to some residents some days back was unwarranted, he still doesn’t approve of the actions taken by the youth to express their displeasure”.
It will be recalled that, a video circulated on social media last week in which some police officers were manhandling residents suspected to have engaged in illegal power connections.
Though the said video received wide condemnation from the public, traditional authorities, and civil society organizations in the Northern Region, the youth over the weekend in a protest March vandalized property running into millions of cedis at the Lamashegu divisional police station and the VRA NEDCo area office in Tamale.
Naa Dakpema noted that the mayhem caused by the youth is worrying and sends a wrong message to the outside world.
The chief has meanwhile called on residents who owe the electricity distribution company, to pick a payment plan suitable for them to defray their debt .
Source:Fiilafmonline/ShawanaYussif
