The Tamale Metropolitan Police Command has reinforced Police visibility at the premises of the Volta River Authority of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (VRA/NEDco).
This was after an angry mob vanderlised properties of the power installation over the ongoing nationwide load shedding exercise.
[contextly_sidebar id=”aXJeD6XAEB8FEzHOFU8UWq88bUd89iz3″]Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh told Citi News the police have launched full scale investigations to arrest the culprits.
He commended the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly for the GHC5, 000.00 bounty placed on the ring leaders of the mob.
“We are grateful that METSEC has given a ransom of five thousand cedis as a bounty to anybody who is going to willingly volunteer information leading to the arrest of anybody who was linked to the vandalization.”
ASP Ebenezer Tetteh reaffirmed the police commitment to protect the VRA/NEDco and other vital installations within the Tamale Metropolitan Area.
Head of security at the VRA/NEDco, Maxwell Kotoka narrated that a well meaning resident gave the security guard on duty a tip off that a mob was advancing towards the company.
“Somebody moved a little ahead of the mob to hint the security man on duty that there was a mob on its way here by which time the standby team which was attending to exigency and contingency faults had gone out so the gate was not locked though it was closed.”
He lamented, “Moments after that the crowd appeared and the irony of it was that we ourselves were in darkness we had been affected by the load shedding and so the whole office was off: so taken advantage of the darkness they lined up, spread across the fence and started throwing various implements, stones and sticks and in the course of that they damaged extensively the glass doors and windows of the complaints office, the new service office and sadly a newly established vending point which we commissioned a month ago.”
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/Citifmonline.com/Ghana