The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, says the real reason why the minority in parliament is adamant on marching to demand the immediate resignation of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and his two deputies is to prevent a coup.

According to him, the police in their interaction with the minority caucus, had revealed that one of the reasons why they refuse to agree with the routes proposed by the minority for their demonstration is to avoid the incidence of a coup.

Describing the reason as more tragic than the incompetence of the Governor of the central bank, he said it was demonstrable of how low the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration has brought the country.

“The police have run to court and they’re seeking to injunct us. But what I find very tragic is not even what the central bank Governor has done, but what the police are giving as the reason why we cannot even exercise the basic right to protest, that they’re afraid of a military coup in this country.

“That is for me more tragic than all that the Governor has done. I can forgive him. But to have the Ghana Police Service tell us today that we cannot protest against what the central bank Governor has done because they’re afraid that there will be a military coup in Ghana is very, very tragic.

“It just tells us how low President Akufo-Addo and his vice Bawumia and his group including people like Addison have brought us,” he said at the Arise Ghana Forum which was held Thursday afternoon at UPSA, Accra.

He explained that while the police are afraid of a coup attempt, the real trigger for a coup will be when the minority fails to march against the Governor of the central bank and the government as a whole.

He said it is at such a precarious time that the soldiers need to be shown that the politicians are capable of holding the current government to account and show leadership.

“This Ghana that was touted as one of the most stable democracies, today our Police Service can tell us that we cannot demonstrate because they’re afraid there will be a coup in this country. That is what I find even more tragic. But we will march. If the coup will happen it will happen, but we will march.

“I have said it time and again that the real reason why we are marching is to prevent the coup. That’s the real reason why we’re going to march. Because it is when you and I fail to offer leadership and challenge corruption, abuse, malfeasance in public office, it is when we fail that the soldiers will decide to fill the space.

“And that is why whatever the police will do we will march to send a signal to the soldiers, that they can rely on us to fix the system,” Ayariga said.