{"id":61535,"date":"2014-11-03T07:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=61535"},"modified":"2014-11-03T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:47:02","slug":"police-to-meet-afag-over-new-demo-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=61535","title":{"rendered":"Police to meet AFAG over new demo date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>AFAG revealed that they were <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/31\/afag-to-drag-police-to-court\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>considering legal action<\/strong><\/span><\/a> against the police after their <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/28\/afags-aagbe-w%CD%BB-demo-set-for-nov-6\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>planned demonstration on November 6<\/strong><\/a><\/span> was put on hold when they [the police] secured an ex parte motion against them.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tC4NcCRIRdAvFrQNVJpwfU2eQ3pjY4Mm&#8221;]The chairman of AFAG told <strong>Citi News:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe would have to communicate our decision\u2026to our lawyers. We are going ahead to fight for this rampant behavior of police in barring AFAG from holding mass protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Greater Accra Police, Assistant Superintendent of \u00a0Police (ASP) Efia Tenge, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that a meeting had arranged with AFAG on Monday to find a solution to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; ASP Tenge said<\/p>\n<p>AFAG&#8217;s planned demo is to\u00a0protest against what they describe as \u00a0\u201cexcessive abuse and misuse of state resources by National Democratic Congress (NDC) appointee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A press statement from the group said : &#8220;\u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eddiekkofi\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @eddiekkofi<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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