Former Member of Parliament (MP) for the North Dayi constituency in the Volta Region, George Loh says the party’s ‘March For Justice’ demonstration held on Tuesday July 6, 2021 has opened up the opportunity for any group to demonstrate against the government.
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According to him, the government under the pretext of COVID-19 has prevented some well-meaning Ghanaians from demonstrating against their (government’s) ills but the ‘March For Justice’ will now change all this.”
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“Our demonstration has broken the jinx of government not allowing any person or groups embark on a demonstration. Because we were allowed to undertake the demonstration, we will also be used as an example if the government wants to block someone from doing same. It received the attention it deserved and it is through demonstrations that we can cause the positive change we seek in Ghana,” he told Happy 98.9FM’s Don Kwabena Prah.
The Volta Regional Vice-Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) advising the party on new approaches for demonstrations shared, “we should provide the opportunity for new faces to address the people during such demonstrations because that is how we discover future leaders. That is how we discovered Okudzeto Ablakwa, Omane Boamah and the lot who were student leaders then.”
Members of the youth wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, hit the streets, Tuesday, July 6, 2021 in a demonstration dubbed ‘A March for Justice’.
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The March was to demand justice for all persons killed or brutalized by various security agencies in the country.
The NDC’s National Youth Organizer, George Opare Addo, stated that the march is also to call on the government to fix several issues arising in the country.
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Prior to the NDC’s demonstration, some Ghanaians had taken to social media, specifically Twitter, to express their displeasure over what they describe as a failure on the part of successive governments to improve the lives of the citizenry with thousands of posts backed by the hashtags #FixTheCountry.
FixTheCountry garnered a lot of support and planned to embark on a street demonstration but were prevented from doing so in the beginning, until the Supreme Court squashed an order by the Accra High Court restraining them from going on the demonstration.
The group however is yet to come out with a new date for their demonstration.
