NDC demo arrives in town | General News 2019-02-08

General News on Friday, February 8, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-02-08

Hundreds of supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took to the streets yesterday during a demonstration dubbed "Aagbewo" to explain to us that they "kill us."

The protest, organized by the newly formed Inter-party Coalition for the Support of National Sovereignty, crossed certain streets of Accra and resulted in a petition to the Minister of the Interior and to the Minister of the Interior. Other institution officials.

The petition contained critical demands, including the resignation of the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah; Minister of State for National Security Bryan Acheampong and Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante-Apeatu.

Bernard Mornah, president of the National People's Convention (NPC), who relied on the NDC's active support to organize the event, has a dual loyalty to the two aforementioned political groups.

Organizers of the protest claimed that there was a growing trend of violence in the country and demanded an immediate cessation through government intervention.

Dressed in red to indicate their seriousness, the protesters were encouraged by the incident of the shooting that occurred in part of the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency during the by-election, which returned Lydia Seyram Alhbadan, NPP candidate, to the post of deputy.

The minority boycotted its swearing in parliament Tuesday in February, describing it as a "bloody widow".

According to the group, the protest was intended to protest the violence that marred the by-elections in the constituency of Ayawaso West Wuogon last Thursday.

The petitioners accused the Minister of National Security, Mr. Kan-Dapaah and Mr. Acheampong, of "illegally recruiting unscrupulous villains and thugs and providing them with weapons and weapons". State-owned police and military equipment to cause chaos during the by-election.

The group blamed the IGP for losing control of Ghana's police and called for a redesign of the system.

"We are also calling for the immediate resignation of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Asante-Apeatu, for losing control of the police service to the extent that the property and equipment of the police will be used in such a terrorist operation sanctioned by another security agency. with or without his knowledge.

"We are also asking that Ghana's police be reconstituted to effectively fulfill its sworn mandate to defend the constitution, as it is vested with the power of the people to defend the laws of the state," he said.

The group also called for the immediate arrest of all suspects involved in the violence to deal with all the rigors of the law.

"If the service continues to be inept at this task and persists in the manifestation of partisan interests, it will have to blame itself when the moment of judgment arrives.

"We will defend what is right and defend the dignity and honor of the police service," he said.

The protest, which began at 8:30 am at Obra Square near the Kwame Nkrumah interchange, was forwarded by the Ghanaian police headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior and ended at House Jubilee around 13:30.

At each of these locations, the group's leader, Bernard Mornah, presented a petition to the heads of the institutions.

Among the protesters, the party's president, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the NDC secretary general, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the former Minister of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the former director general of the national health insurance scheme, Sylvester Mensah, NDC Women's Organizer, Ms. Hanna Louisa Bissiw, Former Minister of Women's Affairs, Child Welfare and Social Welfare, Nana Oye Lithur and Member of Parliament for Klottey-Korley, Zanetor Agyeman- Rawlings.