The Greater Accra Police command will meet the leaders of pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) to discuss a new date for their planned demonstration.
The Police had earlier secured a court order to postpone the demonstration because of an impending meeting of the leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra on the same day, November 6.
AFAG revealed that they were considering legal action against the police after their planned demonstration on November 6 was put on hold when they [the police] secured an ex parte motion against them.
[contextly_sidebar id=”tC4NcCRIRdAvFrQNVJpwfU2eQ3pjY4Mm”]The chairman of AFAG told Citi News: “We would have to communicate our decision…to our lawyers. We are going ahead to fight for this rampant behavior of police in barring AFAG from holding mass protests.”
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Greater Accra Police, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Efia Tenge, told Citi News that a meeting had arranged with AFAG on Monday to find a solution to the situation.
“We are supposed to meet the organisers of AFAG on Monday and we will all sit down and plan on a day that will be most convenient for all of us,” ASP Tenge said
AFAG’s planned demo is to protest against what they describe as “excessive abuse and misuse of state resources by National Democratic Congress (NDC) appointee.”
A press statement from the group said : ““We can only boast of well organised corruption. There is a new revelation of waste and misuse of state resources. There appears to be a well organised attempt to strip the state naked of its funds by dishonest appointees filled with greed.”
By: Edwin Kwakofi/citifmonline.com/Ghana