The Minority in Parliament has voiced dissatisfaction with the Accra Police Command’s effort to get a High Court injunction to halt their planned demonstration on September 5, 2023.
The Minority group is calling on Dr Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), and his two deputies to quit immediately.
The Minority accused the police of intentionally attempting to hinder their planned demonstration during a speech.
Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah emphasised their determination to give in to police displeasure and insisted on carrying out the protest march along the routes they had previously given the police.
“We received a letter on Wednesday from the Ghana Police Service accompanied by a bailiff from the Accra High Court who served a notice or motion for an order to prohibit our Bank of Ghana protest, and we must say that we are very disappointed with this development which is an attempt to scatter the protest which is intended to hold the governor and his deputies accountable for their mismanagement of the bank which resulted in an unprecedented and colossal loss of GH¢60.8 billion, an amount which has had serious consequences on the economy and pushed close to one million Ghanaians into poverty.”
“And let us assure the people of Ghana that, as representatives, we will keep our sacred duty and we will uphold the public interest in line with our constitutionally guaranteed right to publicly protest, and we want to assure the people of Ghana that we have resolved to embark on this protest and nothing will stop us.”
