The planned protest against Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison and his two deputies has been postponed.
Originally scheduled for Tuesday, September 5, 2023, the protest has been rescheduled to Tuesday, 12th September, 2023.
The route remains the same.
The organizers, Minority in Parliament and other Civil Society Organizations in a statement said, the change in date is the result of the outcome of proceedings in court today, 4th September, 2023 because the court was unable to give an instant ruling due to the weight of the preliminary legal objections raised by the lawyers for the Minority in Parliament, and requested the indulgence of the Minority to give its ruling on Friday, 8th September, 2023.
“The legal objections raised today were as a result of the incompetent processes filed in court by the Ghana Police Service seeking to restrain the protest along the routes proposed by the Minority and its broad coalition of Civil Society Groups,” excerpts of the statement available to Metro TV read.
As law-abiding citizens respectful of the judiciary, we have decided to reschedule our protest taking into consideration these developments,” the statement added.
The #OccupyBoG protest is aimed at calling for the resignation of Governor Ernest Addison and his two deputies as a result of their alleged gross mismanagement of the Central Bank which has occasioned an unprecedented loss of GHS60.8 billion and a negative equity of GHS55.1 billion; illegal printing of over GHS80 billion in the midst of the current economic crisis.
The building of the new Bank of Ghana head office at the cost of over $250 million when the Public Procurement Authority initially recommended $81 million also triggered the protest.
