The Accra Police Command was criticized by the Minority in Parliament after the High Court issued an injunction to stop their planned protest against the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and his appointees on September 5, 2023.
On September 5, The Minority will attempt to march from Makola to the frontage of the Bank of Ghana through Rawlings Park and Opera Square.
The police countered that since the route is frequently congested with both pedestrian and vehicular traffic, taking it could jeopardize public safety, public order, and the smooth operation of vital services.
The minority had rejected their alternative route, which would have started at the Parliament Building and ended at Independence Square by passing through the Osu Cemetery Traffic Light.
The September 4 hearing for the injunction is intended to stop the minority from taking their preferred path.
Speaking to the media, Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah announced that they would proceed with the protest march along the routes they had earlier provided to 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,” Armah-Kofi Buah stated.
