Police cannot ban demonstrations in Ghana

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Okoe 12 years ago

Mr. Akron
You are missing the point. In a demonstration where you have opposing protagonists, the situation becomes chaotic hence to avoid clashes, the police to be proactive, should indeed prevent any demonstration by anyon ...
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Mr. Akron
You are missing the point. In a demonstration where you have opposing protagonists, the situation becomes chaotic hence to avoid clashes, the police to be proactive, should indeed prevent any demonstration by anyone and peace will prevail.
CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

1. Don't you dare compare the Mighty United States of America to this minute experiment called Ghana.

2. Even in America, there are limitations to the Freedoms granted citizens

3. In America, citizens appreciate and res ...
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1. Don't you dare compare the Mighty United States of America to this minute experiment called Ghana.

2. Even in America, there are limitations to the Freedoms granted citizens

3. In America, citizens appreciate and respect their rights, by behaving like civilized law abiding citizens.

4. In America, it is almost impossible for the military to stage a coup d'état.

It is your arrogance and pompous nature, that has compelled you to compile such garbage as though it is some sort of intellectual discourse. I am a 100% certain that you Paa Kow, has on numerous occasions in Accra engaged in illegal activity but believe you are above the law and should get away with it, or you know too darn well that Ghana is such a lawless society, you could very well get away with all sorts of law breaking activities.

Policing a civilized society involves several strategies. Even if you have the right to demonstrate, the Law Enforcement department has every right and power to halt your activities, if they suspect it would cause greater harm to a greater portion of society. I draw further analogies to your debunk your twisted reason above, but I give up...

You're just a loud mouthed disgruntled antagonist from the other side of the aisle PERIOD!!!
Muniru 12 years ago

Citizen One, I am not sure you are aware that a still tongue keeps a wise head, otherwise you would not insult the writer the way you have done. As stupid and dump as you are, you need not to air your dirty laundry in public. ...
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Citizen One, I am not sure you are aware that a still tongue keeps a wise head, otherwise you would not insult the writer the way you have done. As stupid and dump as you are, you need not to air your dirty laundry in public. Infact your comments are all my eye and Peggy Martin. Learn to respect other people's opinion.
IDRIS PACAS alias Pink sheet 12 years ago

The Police did not ban demonstrations in Ghana. The Police ONLY TEMPORARILY banned all demonstrations until the SC rules on the election petition. Remember that during the Ghana@50 celebrations, the same police service preven ...
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The Police did not ban demonstrations in Ghana. The Police ONLY TEMPORARILY banned all demonstrations until the SC rules on the election petition. Remember that during the Ghana@50 celebrations, the same police service prevented people from demonstrating because the situation was likely to lead to chaos. Thank God, this writer mentioned peaceful demonstrations. Thus, in the professional judgment of the police, if a demonstration is unlikely to be peaceful, the police can ban it. Learn to be law-abiding and never create a wrong impression of a rightful situation.
Cool J 12 years ago

It is good the wtiter talked only about marches, sit-ins and peaceful demonstrations because I don't remember Luther King and hid followers burning tyres and destroying properties.
In Ghana, we demonstrate to protest 'lack ...
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It is good the wtiter talked only about marches, sit-ins and peaceful demonstrations because I don't remember Luther King and hid followers burning tyres and destroying properties.
In Ghana, we demonstrate to protest 'lack of good roads' for instance, by first burning the only existing asphaltic road then turn round tomorrow to demand a repairvof same or a new one; this is a typical case of onr step fotward, two backwards. We need to be responsible!
Muniru 12 years ago

IDRIS PACAS alias Pink sheet, dont comment on what you lack knowledge about. The police made an emphatic statement that they have banned demonstrations and they will only lift the ban after the verdict. Go and ask the IGP fir ...
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IDRIS PACAS alias Pink sheet, dont comment on what you lack knowledge about. The police made an emphatic statement that they have banned demonstrations and they will only lift the ban after the verdict. Go and ask the IGP first and stop making irrelevant statements
OSOFO KIKIM 12 years ago

THE ONLY PARTY THAT WAS FORMED THROUGH CUOP D'ÉTAT IS THE NDC. GHANAIANS HAVE ALWAYS HAD PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION. WHETHER THE PRESIDENT LIKES IT OR NOT, THE SUPREME COURT WILL DECLARE WHO REALLY WON THE ELECTION. NDC PEOPLE A ...
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THE ONLY PARTY THAT WAS FORMED THROUGH CUOP D'ÉTAT IS THE NDC. GHANAIANS HAVE ALWAYS HAD PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION. WHETHER THE PRESIDENT LIKES IT OR NOT, THE SUPREME COURT WILL DECLARE WHO REALLY WON THE ELECTION. NDC PEOPLE ARE THIEVES.
ABROKYERE NIPA 12 years ago

The police is the most lawless institution in Ghana. When level headed people are talking then idiots like CITIZEN ONE also want to comment. Where is the logic in your comment? No wonder CITIZEN ONE is as mad as a hatter. An ...
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The police is the most lawless institution in Ghana. When level headed people are talking then idiots like CITIZEN ONE also want to comment. Where is the logic in your comment? No wonder CITIZEN ONE is as mad as a hatter. Anyway, I want to bless your pointy little head CITIZEN ONE
Concerned 12 years ago

You are missing the point. The only question is, is it lawful for the police to ban demonstration on that ground.

You are missing the point. The only question is, is it lawful for the police to ban demonstration on that ground.
Yusuf Iddisah-Tamale 12 years ago

It can never be lawful for the police to ban demonstrations. They do not have the power to do that. It is only the president who can ban demonstration. I can't understand why commonwealth hall students wanted to go on a stree ...
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It can never be lawful for the police to ban demonstrations. They do not have the power to do that. It is only the president who can ban demonstration. I can't understand why commonwealth hall students wanted to go on a street procession and the police had to ban it. This is not democracy. Police why?

Dzato Dzata 12 years ago

The police does not have any excuse. They have been trained with the tax payers money to think and provide better solutions. Banning demonstration is not an answer to peace. We like excuses in Ghana too much

The police does not have any excuse. They have been trained with the tax payers money to think and provide better solutions. Banning demonstration is not an answer to peace. We like excuses in Ghana too much
william 12 years ago

Okoe you are right. But our friend should know that Ghana Police does not ban demonstration. Notifying the police by law is not for police to distribute toffee or water! It is to enable them protect life(including protesters ...
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Okoe you are right. But our friend should know that Ghana Police does not ban demonstration. Notifying the police by law is not for police to distribute toffee or water! It is to enable them protect life(including protesters & non protesters) and property as well as free flow of traffick! If the police are not able to in view of timing they advise protesters to re-schedule or advise on routes to take. If protesters will not cooperate and re-schedule, etc,so the national interest should be compromised? And where does it say so in the constitution?
Ato 12 years ago

If demonstrations are likely to disrupt civil discourse, create chaos that threaten peace, people and property...of course the Police can and should stop it.

If demonstrations are likely to disrupt civil discourse, create chaos that threaten peace, people and property...of course the Police can and should stop it.
Kwadjo 12 years ago

I think what Paa Kow is commiunicating is clear and make sense. I can undersstand where Paa Kow is coming from and the message he is conveying. I want to put it in another perspective for these schizophrenic commentators to g ...
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I think what Paa Kow is commiunicating is clear and make sense. I can undersstand where Paa Kow is coming from and the message he is conveying. I want to put it in another perspective for these schizophrenic commentators to get the point across. From the onset after the Ghanaian independence, the police and the military were used to intimidate ghanaians who staged demonstration to carry their message to the Kwame Nkrumah's detention hunger. When Kwame Nkrumah dragged the "mate me ho" to the detention in chains and nailed them to the wall, it was the police that went the length and breath of Ghana to deliver the "mate me ho" people for Nkruma to nail in the prison.
When Nkrumah was overthrown, it was the same police ZOMBIS that rounded the Nkruma ministers up to be placed in detentions. Can you tell me that the police did not know that the detention was deterimental to the health of these poor "mate me ho" or the Kwame Nkrumah ministers?
What about when the late General Acheampong used the police to brutally assulted Ghanaian citizens who were not in favour of Uniongov. When the ghanaian citizens demonstrated, they got the hell out of them whalloped by the Zombis. Do you think that the police were not aware that they were doing the master say I must do the do thing?
What about when JJ Rawlings used the police to rub ghanaian traders of their daily bread simply because JJ has ordered it? He promised to make the rich people and the poor people be the same. Wah he able to do so, NO. Did the police brutally assulted traders simply because Rawlings has ordered it, YES Did the police used their common sense which even goats on the streets possesses, NO. Did Rawlings achieved his aim after all the brutalities and atrocities on the poor well to do Ghanains??, NO. Has any police ever regreted being used as an instrument to obstract democracy/justice???? No
The point I am trying to make here the Ghana police force are zombis. They do not use their brains to think. They only act to siut the ruling government. But it usually hurt the government they are trying to help in the long round.
We all know that if these people are allowed to demonstrate, the government will reconsider their decision and look into the circumstances which led to the demonstration and effect some meaningful change that will result in positive outcome for the government. But because of the Zombi O Zombi thing, the police will not think. I think that the police education level is still low. They do not understand demonstration and how it pave the way to enhance democracy to work. In the end, the government they are protectin or working for always suffer the consequences as in the case of Nkruma, Acheampong, Rawlings and the nantwie nua John Mahama. You wait and seeeee........
Abbas Yaro 12 years ago

The police must use their brains. This is an opportunity for the state to reconsider the kind of people the state recruits into the police service. The current police officers are not helping Ghana to grow. Sack the IGP and ...
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The police must use their brains. This is an opportunity for the state to reconsider the kind of people the state recruits into the police service. The current police officers are not helping Ghana to grow. Sack the IGP and all the useless police PRO's who are quasi-politicians
william 12 years ago

Thanks to your zombiic mentality, you can only see Ghana police in zombiic terms. Poor chap!

Thanks to your zombiic mentality, you can only see Ghana police in zombiic terms. Poor chap!
KUKRUDU 12 years ago

DEMONSTRATIONS ARE A NORM IN LAW ABIDING CIVILISED SOCIETIES!!!! UNFOFTUNATELY, GHANA DOES NOT FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY. TO ALLOW OPPOSING FACTIONS TO HOLD A 'PEACEFUL' DEMONSTRATION ( I am inclined to believe in your case - a ...
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DEMONSTRATIONS ARE A NORM IN LAW ABIDING CIVILISED SOCIETIES!!!! UNFOFTUNATELY, GHANA DOES NOT FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY. TO ALLOW OPPOSING FACTIONS TO HOLD A 'PEACEFUL' DEMONSTRATION ( I am inclined to believe in your case - after the judgement) is tantamount to allowing one faction to carry MATCHES & the other, PETROL and sit back with the hope of a 'PARTY IN THE PARK'.
JUST LOOK AT OUR SO CALLED DEMOCRACY AND YOU WILL SOON SEE THE LEVEL OF STUPIDITY & IGNORANCE DISPLAYED BY -ESPECIALLY - OUR SO CALLED POLITICIANS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO KNOW BETTER!!!
We do not UNDERSTAND DEMOCRACY - PERIOD!!! Ghanaians have come to believe that DEMOCRACY is the FREEDOM to OPEN THEIR MOUTH & SPEW OUT GARBAGE AND GET AWAY WITH IT. I FEEL SICK WATHCING MORNING TV WITH THESE CLOWNS (calling themselves POLITICIANS) making a mockery of each other.
WE have a very long way to go. ALL THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE CORRUPT, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE EQUALLY THE SAME, THERE IS ABDJECT POVERTY YET WE HAVE OFFICIANS WHO ARE FILTHY RICH, A DEPLORABLE MEDICAL CARE FOR THE POPULATION YET GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE FLOWN TO THE UNITES STATES, EUROPE AHD SOUTH AFRICA FOR TREATMENT.
WHAT WE NEED IN GHANA TODAY IS A PEOPLES' UPRISING LIKE THE 1917 BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION - CAPTURE ALL THOSE WHO HAVE LOOTED OUR NATIONAL ASSETS - CHOP OFF THEIR HEADS SO WE CAN START AFRESH.
IT CAN HAPPEN. FAR TOO MANY GHANAIANS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO BEGGING FOR THEIR DAILY LIVES.
VENCERAMOS!!!!!
Gyan Twumasi 12 years ago

It is sad what seem o be going on in Ghana. The police have become a law unto themselves. We should not allow this to continue

It is sad what seem o be going on in Ghana. The police have become a law unto themselves. We should not allow this to continue
km agyin 12 years ago

We seem to be in a police state

We seem to be in a police state
Papa Yaw 12 years ago

How

How

Skido 12 years ago

Nobody is above the law in Ghana yet some people are treated better than others. We need a revolution in Ghana. This stupidity from our leaders should not be allowed to continue. We are tired of the nonsense from the police

Nobody is above the law in Ghana yet some people are treated better than others. We need a revolution in Ghana. This stupidity from our leaders should not be allowed to continue. We are tired of the nonsense from the police
KUKRUDU 12 years ago

I like your post but you are wrong. THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE ABOVE THE LAW IN GHANA!!!
SOLDIERS, POLICE OFFICERS & POLITICIANS PLUS THE VERY RICH!!!
JUST ASK YOURSELF 'WHAT HAS AN ASRMY OFFICER GOT TO DO WITH LAND ISSUES?' ...
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I like your post but you are wrong. THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE ABOVE THE LAW IN GHANA!!!
SOLDIERS, POLICE OFFICERS & POLITICIANS PLUS THE VERY RICH!!!
JUST ASK YOURSELF 'WHAT HAS AN ASRMY OFFICER GOT TO DO WITH LAND ISSUES?'. YET YOU HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM AND AN ARMY OFFICER APPEARS TO 'RESOLVE' THE DISPUTE. JUST AN EXAMPLE!!!!
WEE SURE NEED A REVOLUTION - YES - MANY WILL DIE BUT THAT IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD!! THANK GOD I AM NOT LIVING IN GHANA OR I WILL BE DEAD BY NOW. THERE IS NO WAY I AM GOING TO ACCEPT THESE INJUSTICES!!! YOU WILL HAVE TO KILL ME.
ASIEDU KWAME 12 years ago

THIS ARTICLE IS VERY GOOD. WE NEED MORE TO EXPOSE THE ROT IN THE COUNTRY. ARMCHAIR IGP SITS IN HIS OFFICE AND PROFFER USELESS TACTICS. THIS BAN CANNOT HELP GHANA

THIS ARTICLE IS VERY GOOD. WE NEED MORE TO EXPOSE THE ROT IN THE COUNTRY. ARMCHAIR IGP SITS IN HIS OFFICE AND PROFFER USELESS TACTICS. THIS BAN CANNOT HELP GHANA
william 12 years ago

You sound like if even the writer asked you to go drink poison because that is good against the government you will rush and swallow same!!!!Gullible friend!

You sound like if even the writer asked you to go drink poison because that is good against the government you will rush and swallow same!!!!Gullible friend!
ohenenana 12 years ago

william you are not making sense. what are you trying to say, anyway?

william you are not making sense. what are you trying to say, anyway?
ASIEDU KWAME 12 years ago

WILLIAM, I TELL AGAIN, YOU ARE A BIG IDIOT. I AM NOT SURE YOU HAVE EVER MADE SENSE SINCE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN. FUCK OFF YOU MAGGOT

WILLIAM, I TELL AGAIN, YOU ARE A BIG IDIOT. I AM NOT SURE YOU HAVE EVER MADE SENSE SINCE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN. FUCK OFF YOU MAGGOT
Barrister 12 years ago

Since when did Ghanaians become timid. How come we have all become silent on the intimidation from the police. It is possible John Mahama is behind it. This is exactly what he did when he asked the Accra Mayor to change the ...
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Since when did Ghanaians become timid. How come we have all become silent on the intimidation from the police. It is possible John Mahama is behind it. This is exactly what he did when he asked the Accra Mayor to change the name of the national hockey pitch and later said he didn't know about it. Azaar NDC people
OSOFO KIKIM 12 years ago

WE CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM UNDER A PARTY THAT WAS FORMED THROUGH COUP. ALL THEY CARE IS TO HARASS PEOPLE AND TAKE AWAY THEIR PROPERTY. GOD WILL PUNISH NDC

WE CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM UNDER A PARTY THAT WAS FORMED THROUGH COUP. ALL THEY CARE IS TO HARASS PEOPLE AND TAKE AWAY THEIR PROPERTY. GOD WILL PUNISH NDC
Borga Ku Gu 12 years ago

wow, i did not know that these things are happening in Ghana. And you people are not talking about it? Ghanaians are cowards

wow, i did not know that these things are happening in Ghana. And you people are not talking about it? Ghanaians are cowards
Steve Biko 12 years ago

God save Ghana if police can just initiate useless laws to silence everybody. where are the civil society organizations? Are they aware of the ban?

God save Ghana if police can just initiate useless laws to silence everybody. where are the civil society organizations? Are they aware of the ban?

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