Interior Minister Mark Woyongo has sent a strong warning to
angry youth protesting the ongoing load shedding
exercise to desist from destroying public property or will be arrested. While
he empathizes with the anger of many Ghanaians over the ongoing load
shedding exercise, the minister said the youth cannot use anger as an excuse to
destroy public property. His comments come a day after youths from two suburbs
in Accra, Tabora and Odorkor went on rampage blocking major roads and
destroying properties owned by the ECG all in
protest against the erratic outages. A polytank belonging to the ECG was said
to have been destroyed at the Kwashieman ECG substation by the Tabora youth.
The security man at the station was nearly beaten. They claimed for several
days their lights had been off with no explanation from generators
and distributors. But for the quick intervention of the military, the situation
may have escalated. Mark Woyongo said such actions would not be tolerated in
the near future. In an interview, security expert with the West Africa Network
for Peacebuilding, Dr Emmanuel Bombande said the ongoing load shedding and its
attendant protests are a major national security threat. He would rather prefer
a more robust outreach is embarked on to educate the public and to explain what
is happening.
Source:Myjoyonline.com
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