The Minority in Parliament has rescheduled its #OccupyBoG demonstration which was initially scheduled for Tuesday, September 5 to Tuesday, September 12. 

In a press statement issued by the NDC MPs and signed by their leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, they insisted that their protest march would come off.

According to them, the rescheduling is due to the court’s adjournment of its ruling on the police’s injunction application filed against their protest to Friday, September 8.

“The protest march is to call for the resignation of Governor Ernest Addison and his two deputies as a result of their gross mismanagement of the Central Bank which has occasioned an unprecedented loss of GHS60.8 billion and a negative equity of GH¢55.1 billion; illegal printing of over GHS80 billion and in the midst of this crisis, this reckless team is building a head office at the cost of over $250 million when the Public Procurement Authority initially recommended $81 million.”

“We wish to call on Ghanaians to remain resolute in the fight to protect our constitutional right to demonstrate and hereby assure them that the march to the Bank of Ghana Head Office will certainly take place on Tuesday, September 12, 2023,” an excerpt to the statement said. 

The Caucus added that their route will not change and maintained that they will stick to their original plan.

“The protest march planned by the leadership ofthe Minority in Parliament and other Civil Society Organizations to the Head Office of the Bank of Ghana originally scheduled for Tuesday, 5l of September, 2023 has been rescheduled to Tuesday, 12th September, 2023. The route remains the same.”

The postponement is due to a scheduled court hearing for an injunction filed by the Ghana Police Service on Wednesday, August 30, against the protest march.

Slated for Tuesday, September 5, the group had sought to march from Makola, through Rawlings Park and Opera Square to the frontage of the Bank of Ghana head office in Accra in protest of the over GH¢60.8 billion losses the central bank recorded last year.

However, the police argued that the area is often overcrowded with human and vehicular traffic and thus going by that route could distort public order, safety and the running of essential services.

Instead, the police proposed an alternative route starting from Parliament House through the Osu Cemetery Traffic Light to end at Independence Square, which the minority rejected.

But in court on Friday, the MPs, under the leadership of NDC’s Director of Legal Affairs, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, stressed that the police did not have the right to propose alternative routes for the group. 

Lawyer Tamakloe told the court that according to Article 88(5) of the 1992 Constitution and the State Proceedings Act, only the Attorney General has the authority to institute such actions.

The court subsequently set Friday, September 8, to rule on the Greater Accra Regional Police Command’s injunction application.