The Minority in Parliament has expressed disappointment at the Accra Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service for resorting to the court to prevent their planned protest on September 5, 2023.
Addressing journalists, Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah said the police could have further engaged the caucus in the areas of disagreements instead of securing an injunction against the protest.
He said the minority would not succumb to the frustration of the police and insisted that they would go ahead with the protest and march on the routes they gave to the police earlier.
“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 scupper 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,” he said.
The police filed an application at the court following the refusal of the Minority in Parliament to change the route for its planned protest.
The Minority group is demanding the immediate resignation of Dr. Ernest Addison, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), along with his two deputies.
In a press statement, the police said that they had conducted a security assessment of the proposed protest routes and concluded that it would threaten public safety.
The police said they had requested the protest organisers reconsider the routes, but no agreement had been reached.
As a result, the police said that they had been left with no choice but to allow a court to decide for them.