The Accra Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has requested the Minority in Parliament to change their routes for their demonstration against Bank of Ghana Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison and his two deputies on September 5, 2023.
The organisers proposed to commence the protest from the frontage of Parliament House, through Osu Cemetery traffic light, Ministry of Finance, High Court Complex, Kinbu, Makola, Rawlings Park, Opera Square, and end at the Bank of Ghana in a meeting with the Police on August 23, 2023:
However, the law enforcement agency registered its displeasure at the routes. The Police requested a change of routes, citing public safety, and advised that the new routes and destination organisers would settle on should consider the public order, and have the interest of public safety, and running of essential services.
The Police said it is waiting to hear from the organisers to enable them provide them with the necessary security during the protest.
The #OccupyBoG protest organised by the Minority in Parliament in collaboration with Civil Society Organisations, Progressive Forces, and other well-meaning Ghanaians is based on the central bank’s illegal printing of over GH¢80 billion to the Akufo-Addo government.
“We write in line with sections,1 2&3 of the Public Order Act 1994 (Act 491), to notify you of an impending public protest to be embarked upon by the Minority in Parliament in collaboration with Civil Society Organizations, Progressive Forces and other well-meaning Ghanaians.”
“The purpose of this protest is to express our revulsion against the illegal printing of money (about GH¢ 80 billion) between 2021 and 2022 by BOG for the corrupt Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government which led to a hyper-inflation rate of 54.1% in December 2022,” excerpts of the letter said.
According to them, this conduct by the BoG has pushed some 850,000 Ghanaians into poverty.
“This singular act of BOG has negatively impacted livelihoods and businesses and pushed about 850,000 Ghanaians into poverty in the year 2022 alone.”
