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Published : 03 October 2025
The Acting Northern Regional Chairman of the NDC, Alhaj Gbewaa has dismissed claims suggesting that the Leadership of the Party in the region prevailed on NEDCo to halt their dawn meter monitoring exercise on homes because it puts the ruling NDC government in the bad light.
Alhaj Gbewaa noted that the Party’s intervention is a proactive measure against possible degeneration to violence emanating from the exercise by the NEDCo in ungodly hours.
The Northern Electricity Distribution Company announced a halt of its exercise yesterday, 2nd October, 2025, following a meeting held with the leadership of NDC, Regional Coordinating Council and Tamale Metro Assembly at the NEDCo’s Office.
Leading the meeting were the Acting Chairman of the NDC in the Northern Region, Alhaj Gbewaa and Northern Regional Organizer of the NDC, Baba Zee, representing the Regional Minister due to his role as the Presidential Staffer at the RCC. While the Metropolitan Coordinating Director of the Tamale Metro also represented the Mayor at the meeting due to an assignment outside Tamale.
Also, present at the meeting was the Managing Director of NEDCo, management of the company and other staff members.
This follows an uproar and resentment expressed by residents of the Greater Tamale towards NEDCo since the power distribution company began conducting the exercise in some parts of the Metropolis in full excort of military.
The affected residents accused NEDCo of invading their privacy, harassing them while they are asleep, and visiting their homes unannounced and ungodly hours during their exercise.This, they underscore as a breach of their fundamental human rights, threatening to clash with the NEDCo Officials if they do not stop the exercise.
In order to avoid escalation of this stand off, the leadership of NDC intervened to plead with NEDCo to stop the exercise for now, with Alhaj Gbewaa at the center of negotiation urging the people within the Metropolis to remain calm without harboring ill-intentions towards any official from NEDCo because of the exercise, as they have agreed to halt it for the seek of peace and harmony and cordial relations between the people and NEDCo.
Story by: Inusah Dondaliya
