Lindeners put on alert for more protests if pacts not honoured

Sharma Solomon

By Jeff Trotman

Lindeners have been called upon to resume protests if, in the next 30 days, government fails to honour the agreements it brokered with the region on August 21 last year to stop a month-long agitation against a proposed electricity rate hike.

Governance in Region Ten requires militancy from every citizen, the Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Sharma Solomon candidly stressed in his keynote address on Thursday evening during the final activity to commemorate the death of three protesters, Ron Somerset, 18, Shemroy Bouyea, 24, and Allan Lewis, 46, who were shot on July 18.

Sharma said that although the aim of the evening’s activity was to commemorate the lives lost and the sacrifices made during last year’s struggle, he wants the people of the region to