General News of Monday, 27 June 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.live
2022-06-27Arise Ghana Protest: Police get partial grant from court, organisers unhappy
Some organisers with one of the founding members of the NPP, Dr Nyaho Tamakloe
Arise Ghana plans protest
Police take Arise Ghana to court
Court says protest cannot come off in the evening
An Accra High Court has given the Ghana Police Service a partial grant of an application to among other things, alter the time requested for a demonstration by organisers of Arise Ghana.
The Ghana Police Service went to
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The demonstrators wanted to start their first day march and picketing at 3pm and end at 8 pm and resume the next day but the Police disagreed, raising concerns about the demonstration being organised late into the night.
The court during its hearing on the matter on Monday, June 27, 2022 agreed on three things;
1. The demonstration will start at 8am and end at 4pm
2. Protestors should converge at Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange/Obra Spot and move through the Independence Square
3. The petition should not be presented at the Presidency but a representative from the presidency will meet protestors at the Independence Square and take the petition.
Before the police moved their application on Monday, DSP Sylvester Asare on behalf of the State prayed for an adjournment saying the police needed time to respond to the respondent’s affidavit in opposition to the application.
This was after the court presided by Justice Comfort Tasiame had earlier stood down proceedings to give the State time to review the response of the respondent and move the application.
The prayer by the police however was objected by the counsel for the respondents, lawyer Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe.
The request for an adjournment was subsequently dismissed by Justice Comfort Tasiame who further directed the police to move their motion of an instant application.
DSP Asare in moving the motion argued that the schedule outlined by the organisers of the protest could have an effect on effective policing.
But in response, lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe accused the police of acting in bad faith noting that the organisers of the protest had made reasonable concessions by agreeing to end the protest at 8 pm instead of 10 pm.
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In what she described as a partial grant of the police request, Justice Tasiame ordered the protest to be held between 8 am and 4 pm.
Arise Ghana and a collation of other pressure groups have scheduled their two-day demonstration for June 28-29, 2022 in Accra.
The demonstration according to the organisers is to highlight economic and governance challenges bedeviling the country.
Meanwhile, Bernard Mornah, one of the organisers of the protest, speaking after the court ruling said they intend to challenge the ruling.
According to him, the organisers will, by close of day, file processes that will ensure the protest is held at their given time.
