Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw, has rubbished a protest intended to force President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Bawumia out of office due to hardship in the country.
The protest which saw a handful of Ghanaians clad in red and black and holding placards critical of the government was organized by a private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu.
Maurice Ampaw who was speaking on the aftermath of the protest says the organizer despite exercising his constitutional right cannot force the President to vacate his office with his frivolous reason.
"If things are hard, don’t we have the legal process to change a government?” he questioned on NEAT FM’s morning show, 'Ghana Montie'.
To him, "Demonstrating and calling the President out of office is a coup. You can’t force the President. The constitution doesn’t say so. He [Kpebu] is rather calling for political instability.”
What Kpebu said at the protest
Kpebu led hundreds of demonstrators who marched through the capital on Saturday demanding the immediate resignation of President Akufo-Addo over Ghana’s current economic woes.
Addressing protesters during the march, he said: “We are dying; citizens are dying; citizens can’t afford food; citizens are starving all because of misgovernance by President Akufo-Addo.
"It never happened that you have a president in office and every time that the country borrows, the president’s family becomes richer; how? This can’t continue.
"We can’t borrow all the time and have Databank becoming richer all the time. Citizens have a duty as stated in Article 41 [of the Constitution] to ask the president to resign and this is not the first time that a president of Ghana is going to resign,” Martin Kpebu said.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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