Anti-corruption crusader, Sydney Casely-Hayford has watered down the possible impact of a presidential inquiry into the Police brutalities on demonstrators, who were calling for the creation of a new voters’ register last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”uAM5PJCwveRR2lO9J0uw0ctcQ5DaFFli”]The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, has challenged President Mahama to set up a team to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n
However, speaking on the The Big Issue<\/strong> on Saturday, Casely-Hayford said just like previous presidential commission of inquiries, a new one won’t yield any possible results.<\/p>\n He\u00a0further described as \u2018shameful and disgraceful\u2019 the violence \u00a0at the demonstration.<\/p>\n According to Sydney Casely-Hayford, \u201cthe government should be ashamed of itself\u201d for the development that was witnessed.<\/p>\n The protest, initially planned to be a peaceful turned violent as the police fired tear gas and whipped some of the protesters for attempting to use\u00a0unapproved routes.<\/p>\n The organizers have since denied the allegations insisting they never diverted their routes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seeking Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile Sydney Casely-Hayford has backed calls for justice to be served to all persons affected by the police brutalities.<\/p>\n Some of the participants who were brutalised, including Gabby Asare Otchere Darko have served notice to sue the police.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Pius Amihere eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-corruption crusader, Sydney Casely-Hayford has watered down the possible impact of a presidential inquiry into the Police brutalities on demonstrators, who were calling for the creation of a new voters’ register last Wednesday. [contextly_sidebar id=”uAM5PJCwveRR2lO9J0uw0ctcQ5DaFFli”]The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, has challenged President Mahama to set up a team to investigate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":153051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-153106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}