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<\/a>The\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Occupy the Flagstaff House\u2019 demonstrators were refusing to give their petition to the Minister of Communication, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah who was sent to receive the petition on behalf of the President.<\/p>\nThey are insisting they want the petition handed over to the President himself.<\/p>\n
Three of the demonstrators have been mandated to submit their petition to the President in the compnay of the Police.<\/p>\n The Greater Accra Police PRO, Freeman Tettey said the blockage was mounted by the Police because the demonstrators were breaching the initial agreement of confining the demonstration at the Efua Sutherland Park.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not part of the agreement. We settled on them staying put and we [Police] escorting just three of them to go and present the petition to the authorities at the Flagstaff House,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n He said his men were \u201ccaught off guard and that is why we had to re-organize and stop them. It\u2019s part of the security arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n But IMANI Ghana\u2019s Kofi Bentil accused the Police of exerting unnecessary force on the demonstrators who have so far been demonstrating peacefully.<\/p>\n He indicated that the Police blockage was uncalled for because the caliber of people demonstrating.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Police is causing all the trouble,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe Police wanted to confine us within the Children\u2019s Park and that is directly against my most fundamental right to even go home.\u201d<\/p>\n He narrated that the protestors were proceeding out of the park \u201cin a single, nice, simple, quiet file and then the Police have blocked the road; they don\u2019t want anybody to walk anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Bentil asserted that if the crowd were violent, a chaotic situation could have been created.<\/p>\n The \u2018Occupy the Flagstaff House\u2019 demonstrators are protesting the current economic situation prevailing in the country.<\/p>\n They had earlier planned to picket at the Flag Staff House which is the seat of government but the Police prevented them from doing so saying, the area is a security zone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/a>The demonstrators massed up at TV3 as they are being prevented from converging at Afrikiko Restaurant near the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<\/a>Earlier, personnel of the Ghana Police Service were blocking the \u2018Occupy the Flagstaff House\u2019 demonstrators from moving away from the Efua Sutherland Children\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n
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