{"id":384122,"date":"2017-12-17T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=384122"},"modified":"2017-12-18T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:46:23","slug":"bernard-mornah-granted-bail-vows-sue-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/bernard-mornah-granted-bail-vows-sue-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Mornah granted bail; vows to sue Police"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Chairman of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, has vowed to sue the police for ‘illegally’\u00a0arresting him on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mornah said the police had violated his human rights with the way they had treated him.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”7PlkZ1suezwySrvlIL6pQU4s9LaR6Ceh”]About 19 persons including Mr. Mornah were arrested<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0by the Nima Police on Saturday morning when they gathered as members of the Ghana-Togo Solidarity movement to hold a peaceful march to draw the attention of local and international authorities to the political crisis in Togo.<\/p>\n According to the Police, they had earlier permitted Bernard Mornah and his group to undertake the peace march, however, they informed him later to cancel it<\/strong><\/span><\/a> due to operational challenges and intelligence that another group was trying to interrupt their activity.<\/p>\n But Mr. Mornah denied the claim, saying that he assured the police the peaceful march required very little police presence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said he had also told the police that the march could not be postponed because of the resources invested into its preparation.<\/p>\n Bernard Mornah and those arrested were kept behind the police counter for hours without clarification about their exact offence.<\/p>\n