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A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kenneth Kuranchie, has called on Ghanaians not to accept the practice whereby the Ghana Police Service places a ban on demonstrations across the country without any legal backing. Mr. Kuranchie�s comments come in the wake of the Progressive People's Party�s (PPP) decision to go to court to reverse a court order preventing the party from embarking on a demonstration against corruption in the country. Speaking on Citi FM�s news analysis programme the The Big Issue, Mr. Kuranchie who is also the Editor of the Daily Searchlight opined that the Police had no right to place a ban on demonstrations with no legal backing. �They are supposed to be lawful agents so if you are imposing a ban, it must come from a legal base and when you are lifting a ban it must come from a legal base.� According to him, the excuse of lack of Police personnel to accompany demonstrators is �unacceptable,� saying, �so they cannot police a 100 demonstrators, we cannot police 10 demonstrators?�