The protest against Dr. Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana, has been rescheduled, according to the Minority in Parliament.
The National Democratic Party (NDC) lawmakers claim that the date has changed from Tuesday, September 5, to Tuesday, September 12.
The NDC MPs insisted that their protest march would take place in a press release that was issued by them and signed by their leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson.
According to them, the court’s decision on the police’s application for an injunction against their protest has been postponed until Friday, September 8.
“The protest march is to call for the resignation of Governor Ernest Addison and his two deputies as a result of their gross mismanagement of the Central Bank which has occasioned an unprecedented loss of GHS60.8 billion and a negative equity of GH¢55.1 billion; illegal printing of over GHS80 billion and in the midst of this crisis, this reckless team is building a head office at the cost of over $250 million when the Public Procurement Authority initially recommended $81 million.”
“We wish to call on Ghanaians to remain resolute in the fight to protect our constitutional right to demonstrate and hereby assure them that the march to the Bank of Ghana Head Office will certainly take place on Tuesday, September 12, 2023,” an excerpt to the statement said.
The Caucus continued by saying that they would stick to their original course of action and that their route would not change.
“The protest march planned by the leadership ofthe Minority in Parliament and other Civil Society Organizations to the Head Office of the Bank of Ghana originally scheduled for Tuesday, 5l of September, 2023 has been rescheduled to Tuesday, 12th September, 2023. The route remains the same.”
The court hearing for the injunction, which the Ghana Police Service filed on Wednesday, August 30, against the protest march, has been postponed.
To protest the over GH60.8 billion losses the central bank experienced last year, the group had planned a march from Makola through Rawlings Park and Opera Square to the frontage of the Bank of Ghana headquarters in Accra on Tuesday, September 5.
