A group of protesters, mainly from the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and some displaced squatters at Odawna, became disillusioned when no government official showed up at the Accra Hearts of Oak Park, near Art Centre in Accra to receive their petition. They hit the streets Thursday morning to demand the resignation of Accra Mayor, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, whom they accuse of being insensitive to their plight. The irate youth started their protest march from the Obra Spot at Circle, around 10: 00 am, clad in red clothes and arm bands, through some principal streets of Accra to the Accra Hearts of Oak Park, near the Art Centre. They chanted and danced as they held high placards with inscriptions like: Housing Rights are Human Rights; Mr President Beware, Vanderpuije Will Wreck Your Government; Shelter Is A Right: Atta Act Now and many others. They also held an effigy of the mayor which had the words Vanderpuije will step down written on it. The protesters became angry when they got to the Art Centre only to realise there was no official there to receive their petition. They demanded to be allowed by the police to march to the Castle to present it to the President, but were refused. Presenting the petition to the media, Deputy National Youth Organiser of the CPP, Ernesto Yeboah accused the AMA boss of being insensitive to the plight of “ordinary people”. Referring to the mayor as a “tyrant and secondary school bully [who] roams free,” Mr Yeboah said Alfred Vanderpuije has breached his own promise to effectively tackle numerous problems facing the capital by demonstrating responsible leadership. But after three years in office, the organizer stated, Vanderpuije “has failed to demonstrate responsible and humane leadership of the Assembly and of the metropolis.” He claimed the AMA boss has “ruthlessly and heartlessly thrown thousands of women and children onto the streets, making them homeless, jobless and incapable of furthering their education, or providing for their needs.” He [Vanderpuije] must resign,” insisted Mr Yeboah.