Akua Sarpomaa’s report from the #OccupyBoG protest in Accra Tuesday, October 3, 2023, indicate the timely interventions of organisers of the protest sustained the sanity of the procession.
According to the Onua News reporter, there were several instances where the crowd attempted to indulge in vandalism but were curtailed by the timely interventions of Sammy Gyamfi, Bernard Monarh, Haruna Iddrisu and the Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwas amongt others.
Per her report given on Onua FM/TV’s afternoon political talk show, Pae Mu Ka, when the protestors pulled down the barricades mounted by the police near the Rainbow radio enclave to make their way to the BoG premises, it took the intervention of the convenors mentioned above with some others to calm tempers to allow the police lead the procession.
She added that barricades had been mounted at about 300 metres to the central bank’s premises to prevent the masses from occupying the place.
Meanwhile, the organisers were allowed entry to the office to get their petition presented to the governor as they had intended.
However, some of the protestors had taken seats on the ground to resist any attempt by the security to prevent them from presenting their petition.
Akua Sarpomaa said some of them professed their readiness to be arrested if the police had insisted on them getting the petition handed to the governor at the BoG premises.
The precints of the bank was manned with heavy security earlier in the day after the police declared the vicinity a security zone.
This was to deny the demonstrators entry after convenors had informed them of ending the protest there.
Even though the police secured an injunction to stop the protest until new routes had been agreed, they did not succeed after the Accra High Court threw out their injunction for improper service of the writ of summon to the respondents.
The Minority in Parliament in conjunction with pressure group, Arise Ghana, staged the protest to occupy the central bank to demand the governor’s resignation with his two deputies for what they call a mismanagement of the bank.
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