The Power Distribution Services, PDS, has finally restored power to Kokrobite township in the Ga South Municipality after denying them electricity for two weeks following attack on one of the company’s staff by a resident of the area.
PDS’s decision to restore power to the area follows the signing of a bond of good behaviour by Kobrobite Traditional Council, opinion leaders and Assembly member of the area to ensure that such attack would not happen to any PDS staff anymore.
The Public Relations Officer of PDS for Accra West District, Fred Baimbill Johnson, who confirmed this to energynewsafrica.com, said there was a meeting between management of PDS and a delegation from Kokrobite on Wednesday when the latter committed themselves by signing a bond of good behaviour.
He said after the meeting yesterday, management deployed staff to visit the area to work on the company’s transformers in the area in order to restore power.
“As at this morning, power has been fully restored,” Fred Johnson revealed.
Thirty-nine-year-old, Gershon Asiedu, a staff of PDS who was among a team working to restore power to Kokrobite township, was inflicted with cutlass wounds by one Amedeka.
This compelled the team to flee the area for their lives.
He was sent to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to undergo surgery and receive additional treatment.
Since then, the area has been without power, thus making life very unbearable for the residents and businesses operating there.
Speaking to the issue on an Accra-based Citi FM, Chief of Kokrobite, Nii Ayinsah Sasraku III, who condemned the attack, said the Traditional Council and opinion leaders in the town are assisting the police to trace the whereabouts of the perpetrator.
“It’s almost two weeks now and the people in my neighbourhood are suffering. One person should not create a problem for the community to suffer. So, we are very serious in getting this [gentleman who committed the offence] to be dealt with according to the law.
“My subjects and the assemblyman are working hand in hand to commit ourselves that such a thing like that will never happen again so that we have the problem solved once and for all. That is the request from PDS and we have signed a bond of good behaviour. So, we are expecting a reply from them. So we are appealing to the authorities to get our power resolved,” he added.