The alleged shooting incident in the Ashanti Region during the NDC’s ‘Enough is Enough’ protest has been condemned by Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, saying “the police cannot suppress the masses.”
Averring that “the protest was supposed to be a peaceful walk”, the founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said although the police can control the masses to some extent, it should not get to a level where it can degenerate into an uprising.
The former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has therefore issued a stern warning to Ghanaians not to joke with issues relating to the voters’ register, reemphasising its potential to bequeath the nation into the hands of the military if care is not taken.
“They might be able to control them to a certain extent, and also, if you’re not careful and this gets into a serious uprising, which is possible.
“Let me warn this nation, and when we are in serious crisis and we walk into the hands of the military, I think the people of this country will regret for it,” he said on Ghana Tonight on TV3 Wednesday, September 18, 2024.
His concern stems from the treatment meted out to some demonstrators who participated in the NDC’s Tuesday protest in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, by the police.
During the September 17, 2024 demonstration by the NDC to present a petition demanding the EC to conduct a forensic audit into the voters’ register, some persons, according to the leadership of the party in the Ashanti region, were injured by the police amid an alleged shooting incident in the process.
Although the police denied the claims of gunshot during the protest, the NDC Ashanti Regional Secretary, Dr. Frank Amoakohene, in a statement signed Wednesday, September 18, rejected the police account on the shooting incident.
The protest, dubbed; ‘Enough is Enough’, was carried across all the 16 regions by the party, to register its displeasure with the Commission’s refusal to conduct a forensic audit of the electoral roll, which the NDC says has been characterised by some anomalies, including the illegal transfer of voters which were detected during the exhibition process.
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