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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) national youth organizer Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as Nana B, urged the Ghana Police Service to allow opposition youth from the National Democratic Congress ( NDC) to organize their planned demonstration dubbed “March for Justice”.
The youth wing of the NDC had written to the police asking for protection for the demonstration scheduled for July 6, 2021 in Accra.
In response, police said they could not protect the youth group, citing COVID-19 among other things as an excuse.
“The restrictions imposed by Executive Instrument (EI) 395 to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have still not been lifted,” police said.
But speaking on Peace FM’s (Krokookoo) political talk show on Friday, July 2, 2021, Nana B disagreed with the position taken by the police.
According to him, demonstrations are a constitutional right, so the police cannot deny any Ghanaian to exercise this right.
“I don’t agree with the police. If they [NDC youth] want to go into a protest, they should be allowed to leave. The police should sit down with the organizers and agree on the routes to be taken for the demonstration; it could be a single route. The police should be able to tell the organizers to provide the protesters with nose masks and hand sanitizers, so that they can embark on the protest, ”he said.
—Citinenewsroom
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