The Accra Regional Police Command has secured a restraining order to stop a pressure group from demonstrating on Friday, March 6, 2015.
A circuit court in Accra granted the police the restraining order against the pressure group, Concerned Ghanaians, since the day was for the celebration of Ghana’s Independence Day.
The group had proposed to embark on a protest march on March 6, 2015 to mount pressure on the government to end the hardship Ghanaians are currently going through.
The police turned down the request, citing their inability to provide personnel on the day due to the Independence Day parade at the Black Star Square in Accra.
Subsequently, the police failed to reach a compromise with the group when it tried to get them to postpone the date for the protest march.
The group, which claimed it was poised for action, insisted that it would not postpone the date for the demonstration, hence compelling the Accra Regional Police Command to secure the restraining order from the circuit court.
Court order In a press statement released yesterday, the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, ASP Effia Tenge, said the restraining order was sought to suspend the march.
“The court order further restrain the organisers of the group called Concerned Ghanaians, their agents, servants, assigned workmen or anybody claiming power through them to refrain from embarking on any form of demonstration,” she said.
According to her, the order was upheld in an application filed by the Accra Regional Police Command for and on behalf of the Inspector General of Police on February 17, 2015, which sought to change the date for the demonstration due to the Independence Day celebration.
However, she said the group had gone undercover since the restraining order was secured.
“Unfortunately, all diligent efforts to reach and serve the organisers of the demonstration with the restraining order has proved futile, leaving the police with no option than to re-apply for an order for substituted service.”
The police, she said, therefore, sought to serve the court notice to the leadership of the group through the media and “any known place of abode of any of the organisers”.
A copy of the notice, Ms Tenge said, had been posted on the circuit court’s notice board.
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