The Police have rejected claims by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that they attempted to sneak behind them to secure a court order to stop their “Wɔn Gbo” demonstration, slated for Wednesday.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Hr3ugVcMoULuditrEBro5Xg2aU0vrUmf”]The NPP’s General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong at a press conference on Tuesday, accused the Police of attempting to prevent them from demonstrating.
“The police went behind us to take a court injunction but the court threw them out,” he said adding that “I have in my possession court documents relating to the injunction application.”
However, speaking on Eyewitness News, the Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Christian Tetteh Yohonu insisted that “it is not true…We didn’t go to court to block tomorrow’s demonstration.”
He explained that going to court was in relation to disagreement on the specific routes the NPP intended to use for the demonstration.
“They indicated that they will use the Tudu, Rawling Park and then Bank of Ghana before coming to Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and then to the Hearts of Oak Park. We said no, it’s not in order because it is really going to interfere with business in the business centre and also passing through Bank of Ghana which is a security zone. That is where we had disagreement over,” he added.
DCOP Yohonu also added that they went to court to ensure that the NPP stick to the approved routes saying “having realized what happened in the situation of AFAG where the people defied the routes, we decided that we have to go to court so that the court will make them stick to the routes that they gave to us.”
Meanwhile, the Police say the are fully prepared for tomorrow’s demonstration and urged the NPP to ensure that the protest is peaceful.
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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana