Two women injured as NDC youth storm Bolgatanga- Paga road, burn tyres in protest over 2020 election declaration.
Two women sustained various degrees of injury following a protest by some youth of the National Democratic Congress that erupted in the Upper East Regional Capital Bolgatanga.
The nearly violent protest was characterized by the burning of lorry tyres and blocking of a major street in the heart of the town, causing vehicular and human traffic.
According to Upper East Regional Youth Organiser of the NDC Abraham Lambom, the protest is a result of the decision of the electoral commission to subvert the will of the people in the just ended general elections.
“We are doing this because the Electoral Commission is conniving with the party in government to steal the verdict of the people. The mandate that the people have given us to govern has been stolen by the Electoral Commission and we want to protest to let them know that the people’s mandate is the mandate given to us (NDC) and we are ready to defend it,” he told dreamzfmonline.com.
It took the intervention of the Ghana Police Service to maintain calm along the busy international trunk road.
At the time Dreamz News got to the scene, two ladies were lying on the floor gasping for breath with one intermittently vomiting until the arrival of an ambulance to transport them to the regional hospital for medical attention.
It however, remains unclear how the two got injured in the process.
Meanwhile, the Upper East Regional Police Command through its Public Relations Officer, ASP David Fianko Okyere said the Thursday night disturbance is currently under investigation.