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The Committee for Joint Action, CJA, has vowed to go ahead with a planned demonstration in the Northern regional capital of Tamale on Saturday.The regional police on Friday secured a court injunction against the demonstration citing inadequate men to provide adequate protection for the protestors.However, the leadership of the demonstration aimed at registering the people’s discomfort with living conditions and general hardship in the society, have descried the police action as unnecessary and useless confrontation.In any case, the group says it has not been served with any court injunction.They have therefore vowed to proceed with the demonstration and damn the consequences, which the police say could include contempt of court.According to Mr. Kwasi Pratt Junior, who spoke to Joy News, the demonstration is definitely coming off on Saturday, and added that “this confrontation that the police are organising is absolutely useless and needless and they must get this very, very clear; nothing is going to stop this demonstration tomorrow.“We are insisting on our constitutional, legal and democratic right, look the CJA is not a guerrilla movement and we are not carrying AK47 rifles, we are organising a peaceful demonstration; dancing to music and carrying placards on the streets. What danger does that present to anybody?”The CJA had earlier in the day issued a statement explaining efforts it had made to comply with statutory public order demands and said the police had exhibited bad faith in all this.See the statement below.A similar protest at the close of 2007, brought the group and the police in Accra into a lengthy tussle before the event came off. Meanwhile similar protests marches have been planned for Cape Coast and Sekondi by the CJA.
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