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Supporters and sympathizers of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) in the Effutu Constituency, on Saturday staged a three-hour demonstration against what they described as �difficult living conditions in the country, and irresponsible governance by the NDC government�. It was organized by the party executives in the constituency under the theme: �Yerebre� (meaning, We Are Suffering). The demonstrators carried placards, the inscriptions on some of which read: �Mr President sack incompetent MMDCEs�, �Yerewuoo�, (meaning, We Are Dying), �Stop pair-trawling fishing�,� We want Election of MMDCEs, �Reduce Utilities Tariffs' and �Pay Get-Fund�. The demonstrators started from the Shell Filling Station through some principal streets of Winneba, and ended at their party�s office under armed police guard. Addressing them later, the 2012 Parliamentary Candidate of the party, Nana Owusu Offori, appealed to government to set up a probe into the activities of the Effutu Municipal Assembly.. He said, the fishing industry is collapsing, due to the activities of pair-trawlers of foreign vessels, thus leading to the destruction of fishing nets of the fishermen. Nana Offori said Ghanaians are suffering, and therefore appealed to the NDC government that, as a listening government as it claims, to listen to the peoples� cry, and put things in an orderly manner to help alleviate their plight.