Occupy BoG Protest: Nothing will stop us – Minority slams police injunction

The Minority in Parliament has vowed to proceed with its intended Occupy BoG protest.

According to the NDC MPs, nothing will stop them from exercising their constitutional right to protest against the ills in Ghanaian society.

This comes on the back of an injunction motion filed by the Greater Accra Police Command seeking to prohibit the September 5 protest which is in demand for the immediate resignation of Dr. Ernest Addison, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), along with his two deputies.

Addressing the media on the back of this, a Deputy Minority Leader, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah accused the police of attempting to obstruct their lawful right to protest.

He affirmed that, regardless of the obstacles, they remain committed to proceeding with the protest march on the initially designated routes they communicated to law enforcement authorities.

“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.”

Source: Ekow Annan || Newsalertgh