The leadership of Arise Ghana has finalised its official engagements with the Ghana Police Service over an impending demonstration.
A statement signed jointly by three Leading Members of Arise Ghana, namely Mr Bobie Ansah, Mr Benard Mornah and Mr Mensah Thompson, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said pursuant to fruitful deliberations with the Police, details and modalities had been agreed on for the demonstration, which would be held on 28th and 29th June.
It noted that the first day, 28th June, of the demonstration would begin at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange/Obra Spot, where they would converge between 1200 hours and 1500 hours.
“We shall move through Nima Police Station Street to the Arko-Agyei Inter-change and end at the Frontage of the Jubilee House where we will picket until 2200 hours.”
The statement said on the second day, 29th of June, they would converge at the El-Wak sports stadium at 1200 hours and move on the Lands Commission Road to the Liberation Road all the way to the Ministry of Finance, where a petition would be presented to the Minister of Finance.
It said from the Ministry of Finance the demonstrators would move to the frontage of the Parliament House of Ghana, where they would present a petition to the Speaker.
The statement said the purpose of the Arise Ghana demonstration would be to protest persistent and astronomical hikes in fuel prices by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia Government that had imposed excruciating economic hardships on Ghanaians.
It said it was to protest against the imposition of the obnoxious E-Levy on the already-burdened Ghanaian people by what it called “the insensitive Akufo-Addo/Bawumia Government and to demand a full scale and bi-partisan Parliamentary probe into COVID-19 expenditures.”
It said they were also protesting the grabbing of State lands by officials of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia Government, particularly the de-classification of huge portions of the Achimota Forest reserve.
The demonstration will also be in protesting against the increased rate of police brutalities and state-sponsored killing of innocent Ghanaians, as well as the growing culture of human rights abuses under the watch of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that our beloved country is in deep crises and urgently requires a rescue,” it said.
“We, therefore, wish to call on all progressive forces and patriotic Ghanaians to come out in their numbers for this historic demonstration which will mark the beginning of a new paradigm in the destiny of this country.”
The statement used the hashtags: #KromAyeShe; #MaaMlinEwa and #SaveGhanaNow.
