AFAG: No excuses, protest set for 16 April

The Alliance for Accountable Governance, a civil society pressure group, has said its protest on the hardships Ghanaians are suffering will go ahead on 16 April and they will not allow police to postpone it a second time.

The protest, dubbed the Boiling Point Demo by the group, was supposed to take place on 26 March but the police could not provide adequate security for the march because of the recent violence in Kumasi.


Read AFAG's full statement below:


POLICE WARNED; MEIKU DEMO POSTPONED TO TUESDAY 16th APRIL, 2013


At a meeting with the Ghana Police Service, the police informed us of an order to send personnel to Kumasi to support the Kumasi police command on combating rising disturbances in the garden city. As a result, the police informed us of their inability to provide security and support for the twenty-thousand, 20,000, people who were going to demonstrate against the economic mismanagement and waste of the Mahama-Amissah care-taker government.


AFAG insisted on finding ways around this but the police went to court for an injunction restraining us from the demonstration. As a peaceful group, we sat with the Regional Police Commander and his team to agree on a new date and route.

AFAG has agreed with the police to demonstrate on Tuesday, 16th of April, 2013. We use this medium to send a clear message to the Police and other agencies to stay off our protest, for the Ghanaian people will not entertain any further excuse. The agreed date is non-negotiable and reversible.


AFAG wishes to inform the nation that, our respect for peace should not be taken as a form of weakness.


God bless Ghana,


Signed


Davis Opoku Ansah Joshua Kyeremateng Williams Agyei