Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has blamed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the behavior of the FixtheCountry conveners regarding their letter of request to the Ghana Police Service.
The conveners, writing to the Police, requested permit to embark on an "armed" demonstration on June 4th but their request as well as their demonstration has been turned down.
The group, in the letter, said "we will bring our own security company to provide protection to demonstrators. All weapons held by demonstrators or by the contracted security personal will be for personal protection only; and all weapons will be duly permitted in accordance with the Arms and Ammunitions Act, 1972 (NRCD 9) e) Proposed route and destination: We expect that the Demonstrators will gather at Circle".
"The procession will move from Circle to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, where the Protestors will make a demand a slot on GTV to speak directly to the Nation and lay out our grievances, in accordance with Article 55(11), which guarantees fair opportunity to Ghanaians to present their programmes to the public through equal access to the state-owned media", they added.
The Ghana Police Service has secured a court injunction against the intended demonstration.
“After hearing the application [on Friday, May 3], the Court granted an order to restrain the organisers, their agents, assigns and whoever is claiming through them from embarking on the armed demonstration as had been intended,” the Police said in a statement on Friday.
To Mr. Kwesi Pratt, the NPP cannot extricate themselves from blame if today a group has arisen and demanding to go on demonstration without Police protection.
According to him, the group's motivation to go for private security stems from the NPP's formation of its "Invisible Forces".
He referenced the members of the NPP justifying the activities of the Invisible Forces when people opposed the idea.
"I can't blame them alone. Let's be truthful. I remember when our comrades in the New Patriotic Party started the Invisible Forces and we spoke against it, what did they say? They said they have no confidence in the Police, so they want to protect themselves. Is this not the same thing that these people are saying? This 'we have no confidence in the Police', we heard it a long time; it's not just the FixtheCountry people saying it", he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I would have been VERY SURPRISED to you had said something different!
Is this not the same man who said government should not compare happenings with things that happened in the past granted his claim is accurate? This your “stomach direction” politics is worrying and unbefitting... Try to match your brains with your age... it will do is a lot of good.
This Pratt guy is not clever at all... We all know this group is being sponsored by the NDC party. No wonder the NDC remain quiet on this embarrassment to the group. The security agencies must crush this group with all the powers at their disposal.
The man with wicked minds, Kwesi Pratt. Always inflaming the fire. Adwen bone nkoaaa
Prattle, or whatever, gyae gyima 3ne kwaseakasa. I agree with some of the comments by the readers especially the one that says you and your NDC have been disgraced immensely by the immature and senseless behaviour of this group led by that ***barred word*** called vormawor.
massa obi di mboasem aa ka kyere no s3 wo y3 wo di mboasem, na gyae de3 wo de nenam no.
Mr prattle don't you think you've spoken enough bunkum to last you a whole lifetime?You're now a grandpa and you should say things that the youngsters will want to listen to because it makes sense
KB I agrer totally with you. Osama bin Laden was a well educated individual. OBV is a terrorist masquerading as a youth activist. Ghana shine your eyes; these guys are playing your emotions to take advantage of the disaffection with the status quo to gain power. God has exposed their deepest motivations. Never trust them! Yoooo.
Fix the country is an emerging violent and terrorist group and should be disbanded in Ghana using the law courts. If this is not done, in future they will do something worse, particularly if NPP wins 2024 elections and the opposition refuse to concede. It is a copycat of January 6 in the U.S.
Childish analysis