Organizers of \u2018Occupy Flagstaff House\u2019 demonstration say Ghana’s Parliament is next on the list of institutions they plan to occupy.<\/p>\n
After staging what they describe as a successful protest against the Executive arm of government on Tuesday, Nana Akwesi Awuah; convener of the group called the Concerned Ghanaians for Responsible Governance told Citi News, their next move is to get the Legislature to also sit up.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s protest was aimed at getting the President to address challenges facing the country such as the erratic supply of electricity, unreliable supply of potable water, the depreciating value of the cedi, the delayed implementation of the Senchi Consensus, prosecution of corrupt public officials, among others.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News,<\/strong> Mr. Awuah noted that the group will get Parliament to be proactive in holding government accountable.<\/p>\n He indicated that the group wants to make every arm of government responsible and be accountable to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n \u201cWe put them there for a reason. The only arm of government we don\u2019t get to choose is the Judiciary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Awuah said the leadership of the group will soon meet to deliberate on how to go about that demonstration because \u201cthere are so many forms of protest and it may come in a different form that what you saw yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Convention People\u2019s Party, (CPP) is urging Ghanaians to capitalize on existing structures including political parties in protesting against governments rather than using loose organizations.<\/p>\n The party\u2019s General Secretary, Ivor Greenstreet told Citi News<\/strong>, Ghanaians should critically assess the existing political parties and partner with them to demand accountability.<\/p>\n \u201cI think if they are going to achieve any significant aims, then it should be through that formal process rather than the informal process which nobody knows quite where it will lead,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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