According to Prince Elikplim Ganaku, the protesters’ attorney, almost all of the protesters who were detained by the police on Thursday, September 21 for attempting to march to the Jubilee House have been released.
At the 37 bus terminal, where they had congregated for the protest on Thursday morning, the “Occupy Julorbi House” protestors were taken into custody by the police.
The organizers, Democracy Hub and Atuguba & Associates, allegedly received an application to stop the protest from the police as early as Tuesday, September 19.
However, the march was not called off by the organizers.
49 protesters were detained by the police and sent to various Accra prisons.
However, Prince Elikplim Ganaku later confirmed that all of the protesters had been freed in a statement on Ghana Tonight on TV3.
They were released under “quite generous” terms, he claimed.
“As far as I know, they should have all been released by now,” he told host Alfred Ocansey.
He refuted the police estimate and said that 56 or so protesters were actually taken into custody.
According to their original plan, which called for a three-day picket at the government building, the protesters have given notice that they will demonstrate once more on Friday.
Relatedly, the police have refuted earlier claims that they detained a BBC reporter and his cameraman during the #OccupyJulorbiHouse protest.
The police clarified the situation and denied reports that the BBC Reporter had been arrested in a statement.
The police declared that the journalist’s arrest had not actually occurred and that the report should be ignored.
“The attention of the Police has been drawn to an erroneous report by a section of the media that a BBC reporter and his cameraman have been arrested”
“The police will like to put on record that the report is false and should be disregarded”
The Police went on to say that following the protestors’ swoop, the identified journalists were released after being screened.
