2016 running mate for the Patriotic People’s Party (PPP), Brigitte Dzogbenuku says events that unfolded during the Occupy Flagstaff House protest in 2014 made it an interesting experience.
The former beauty queen who believes her involvement in the protest was part of the many reasons she was chosen by the PPP to be their running mate for the last elections recalling events of the day said even though the police kept blocking and refusing them passage to the Flagstaff house, interactions with some of them showed that they were in support of the protest.
She said, “we engaged some of the policemen who actually thought it’s a good thing we were doing but because they were in uniform they couldn’t join us and all that, so you could feel their frustrations too”.
Brigitte Dzogbenuku stated that she had to confront the Communications Minister at the time (Edward Omane Boamah) because of some ‘insulting’ comments he made when he was being interviewed by some media personnel.
“There was a serious crisis in the country, nothing seemed to be working and they who were in power didn’t seem to care, they didn’t care. It was obvious they did not care what was going wrong and that was the frustrating part.”
She added that it was good that people came out to make their voices heard as the nation was facing a lot of hardships during that period.
On 1st July 2014, some Ghanaians (mainly from the middle class) came together to match against the various economic hardships the country was facing at the time.
