Manya Krobo bosses lead thousands against prepaid meters, military
Huge number of occupants of Somanya, Odumase-Krobo, Agormanya, Kpongunor, Kpong, and other Krobo people group in the Eastern Region on Friday, hit the roads to fight the continuous organization of prepaid meters and military men to the area to guarantee the establishment cycle.
The troopers, sent since June 14, 2022, are helping the ECG with the establishment of new prepaid meters following a very long time of aggression among inhabitants and the ECG over the installment of power bills.
The ECG has legitimized the utilization of military staff during the activity.
The organization is right now introducing 3000 meters during the principal period of the activity as a feature of a bigger objective of 50,000 postpaid meters to be supplanted with prepaid meters.
The tactical still remaining parts effectively participated in the activity in spite of the Second Deputy Speaker, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, guiding the Defense Minister to pull out them right away.
The request followed an explanation made on the floor by the Member of Parliament for the area, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi on Friday, June 24, that the presence of the tactical men is elevating strains locally.
Driven by a few divisional heads of the area, the demonstrators clad in red clothing, using notices, and reciting the Nadu melodies, requested a quick stop in the continuous activity and the prompt withdrawal of the warriors from the local area.
The 15km walk started from the Akutunya truck station at Somanya around 8 am with the protestors winding up at the Kpong primary truck station at 1 pm where the PRO of the divisional bosses for the bosses, read out a request.
The request was endorsed by the Divisional Chief of Piengua, Nene Tetteh Zogli III, Nene Bediako Baah Mualla III, Divisional Chief of Dorm, Nene Olepeme Sakinor Nanor I, Chief of Suisi-Okwenya, and John Baah, secretary to the bosses.
Conveying the request to the demonstrators, Nene Olepeme Sakinor Nanor I required the quick withdrawal of the tactical men undertaking the establishment of the meters, contending that the presence of the warriors was threatening general society.
"The presence of equipped military men in Kroboland is scaring thus they ought to be removed promptly on the grounds that Krobos are living in dread and in distress," the request read.
Blaming the ECG for involving the establishment of the meters as a ploy to take off from the monetary wrongdoing in the overbilling adventure, the bosses requested the setting up of a board of trustees of request to explore the monetary adventure in the overbilling and the prompt supplanting of prepaid meters with the post-paid meters.
Further, the bosses required the wiping out of completely accumulated obligations among 2014 and July 2022 and from that point continue post-paid charging from the next month subsequent to showing proof of adjusting the oddities in the charging framework.
Divisional Chief of Piengua, Nene Tetteh Zogli III, undermined that the fighters will be faced with the Nadu (war drones) would it be advisable for them they be sited anyplace locally introducing the prepaid meters. "From tomorrow, anyplace troopers will accompany the aim of fixing prepaid meters, they'll be stood up to with the Nadu," he noted.
As per him, Krobos have made obviously they don't need the prepaid meters. "We don't need it today and we don't need it tomorrow," said the boss.
He excused the place of the ECG that the paid ahead of time metering framework is an administration strategy.
He said, "The prepaid meters are not something that should be brought to Kroboland. Certain individuals say it's an administration strategy, it's anything but an administration strategy. The ECG has taken from us throughout the long term and they are falling back on this action to recover their obligation, they're searching for ways of taking from us once more."
The Council of Churches and the Christian Leaders Council of the Krobo Area who joined the show, likewise in a request to President Akufo-Addo, depicted the establishment practice as "exceptionally perilous, lethal, unlawful and unlawful."
Portraying the arrangement of the fighters was unlawful and out of line, the gathering said Krobos were not at war and not prepared for war. "We need to additionally lay out that around 200 and over military men brought to Krobo region for the activity of fixing prepaid meters are unlawful and out of line since we are not at war and not prepared for war," he expressed.
To resolve the issue, the Council of Churches and the Christian Leaders Council encouraged the ECG to request all accountabilities and return monies regrettably taken from its clients starting around 2007, migrate all unlawfully associated electrical shafts, invert any conflict thought or fight perspectives as well as hold further meetings with all partners.
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