Protestors at the #OccupyBoG demo halted their procession to protest ongoing construction of the new Bank of Ghana headquarters after reaching the area at Ridge where the edifice is being put up.
“Stop the work! Don’t continue. This project is from our coffers. The building is from stolen money,” among other comments were pronounced by the protestors when they reached the enclave of the new headquarters building of the BoG, according to Akua Sarpomaa’s report on Onua FM/TV’s Pae Mu Ka, an afternoon political talk show.
According to her, they sat in the middle of the road to convey their messages to the workers on site who were busily doing their construction work.
The building of the new headquarters of the Bank of Ghana, among a GHC60.8 billion debt incurred from their outfit in the year 2022 with a negative equity of GHC55.1 billion warranted the protest from the Minority in Parliament together with the Arise Ghana group.
The Tuesday protest saw a heavy security comprising police officers, riot control officers and heavy duty police vehicles on the Atta Mills Highway.
They massed up and set up barricades at the BoG headquarters and around the Supreme Court area and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park.
After the protesters indicated that they were going ocuppy the central bank’s premises, the police declared it a security zone saying the demonstrators could not use the place.
The police went to court to seek injunction for the organisers to redirect their routes but the hearing was adjourned to October 8 after the police failed to serve all the respondents with the summon.
Per the approved route released by the Police, the protesters converged at the Obra Spot at the Kwame Nkrumah interchange this morning.
The police agreed with them to proceed to Adabraka, then to the Ridge Roundabout, before moving to the National Theatre Traffic Light, then to the Law Court Complex Traffic Light, and on the Atta Mills Highway and make a u-turn at the National Lotteries before ending the protest at the Independence Square.
But they insisted on their old route which faced many restrictions. Leadership of the protest were allowed entry to the BoG premises but did not meet the governor.
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