{"id":156009,"date":"2015-09-30T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=156009"},"modified":"2015-09-30T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:05:08","slug":"igp-justifies-injunction-against-lmvc-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/09\/igp-justifies-injunction-against-lmvc-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"IGP justifies Injunction against LMVC demo"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Alhassan has defended a decision to stop the Let My Vote Count Alliance group from staging a demonstration in the country.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”FMtVQq3gV9Wnpk6BdDS5nNecR2USqrov”]The Police had secured an injunction<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to prevent the group from embarking on a demonstration yesterday [Tuesday].<\/p>\n Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra, the IGP \u00a0said \u201cthe Police does not go to court to prevent anyone from exercising their right to demonstrate\u201d but \u201csometimes, we do that given what trend analysis and assessment we have done.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes we need to organize ourselves. It takes resources, men, vehicles and equipment so that we can better police the demonstration. It has never been, and will never be the intention of Police to stop anyone from exercising their right to demonstration but we need to get ourselves in readiness in order to be able to police it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n