{"id":384392,"date":"2017-12-19T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=384392"},"modified":"2017-12-19T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T07:16:53","slug":"defiant-mornah-to-organise-another-rally-on-december-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/defiant-mornah-to-organise-another-rally-on-december-25\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Defiant’ Mornah to organise another rally on December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Chairman of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC) and Convenor of the Ghana-Togo Solidarity movement, Bernard Mornah, has revealed that plans are being made to stage another rally on December 25, despite being arrested during his initial event on Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to him, a letter has been written to notify the Police of their intention to organise the march next week, as is required by law.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”nqAtE162W0Swh7NC7BGeFXmbnZ1Yxdqb”]”I have drafted a letter to send to the Police tomorrow morning. A week from today, which is the 25th of December, we shall be organising a rally at the same venue at 9 am,” he said on Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Monday.<\/p>\n About 19 persons including Mr. Mornah were arrested<\/strong><\/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 march, however, they informed him later to cancel it<\/strong><\/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