The Ghana Police Service says 29 demonstrators who took part in Tuesday’s demonstrations organised by the Arise Ghana movement, have been arrested for their part in the violence that occasioned the event.
The police in a statement say they are also looking to arrest organisers of the demonstration, as well as others to be identified through video footages of the demonstration, to face the law over the violent turnout and damage to property.
The two-day demonstration, scheduled to continue on Wednesday according to organisers, is to protest “persistent and astronomical hikes in fuel prices” and their attendant “excruciating economic hardships on Ghanaians”, the imposition of E-Levy, the grabbing of State lands by officials and the de-classification of huge portions of the Achimota Forest reserve, increased police brutalities and state-sponsored killing of innocent Ghanaians, as well as demand a full scale and bi-partisan parliamentary probe into COVID-19 expenditures, and the total cancelation of the Agyapa deal.
The demonstrators clashed with the police following disagreements over routes prescribed for the march. The High Court had on Monday directed that the march be restrained to routes proposed by the police and should run between 8am and 4pm, but the demonstrators who say they had appealed against the court decision, insisted on sticking to their original plan – to picket at the frontage of Jubilee House into the night.
