New Takoradi: Assembly woman and 14 others fined for picketing at ECG
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There was a frenzy atmosphere in New Takoradi, a suburb of Takoradi on Monday morning after the release of 15 town folks who were dragged to court for picketing at the premises of Electricity Company of Ghana in Takoradi a few months ago.
The angry residents had gone to the ECG office in Takoradi on Wednesday December 9, 2015 to protest against a four day continuous power outage in the Community which they claimed caused much inconvenience and discomfort to them.
The protesters including one of the Two Assembly Members of the Town, Hannah Tetteh were arrested by the police and arraigned before a Takoradi circuit court.
They were charged for besieging a public property with weapons and chanting war songs. They were granted bail but were remanded on their seventeenth appearance in court on Thursday, March 31, 2016 to reappear on Monday.
In Court on Monday, April 4, 2016, the court presided over by Christiana Ayiah Donkoh convicted them to a fine of 360 ghana cedis each. They were also made to sign a bond of good behaviour for two years.
Minutes after their released, about 200 residents who were in court to throw their support behind their fellow indigenes started jubilating, a mood that continued from the court’s premises to New Takoradi where the Jamboree continued till midnight.
The elated residents hailed the MP for the Constituency, Kobby Okyere Darko who stood behind them through thick and thin during the trial.
They were also grateful to the Takoradi Constituency chairman of NDC, Illiasu and others who didn’t leave them in the lurch.
The event was however not without drama as minutes after the MP for Takoradi Kobby Okyere Darko had sign a cheque for 6000 ghana cedis to pay the fine, The Deputy Regional Minster, Alfred Ekow Gyan who is also the NDC parliamentary candidate for the Constituency brought 2,700 ghana cedis to defray part of the fine but he was told Kobby has settled all the cost.
The money was then given to the 15 persons who were fined to share.
Author: Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson (www.233times.net)
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
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