The Ghana Police Service has approved modalities for the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) nationwide demonstration at the Electoral Commission (EC) offices.
The NDC’s march scheduled for September 17 is to press home their demand for an audit of the voter register by the EC ahead of the general election on December 7.
At a meeting on Wednesday, Adom News’ Kodwo Mensah Aboroampa who was presented reported that, both parties finalised arrangements at the Accra Regional Police Command.
In attendance was the NDC General Secretary, Fifi Kwetey, National Communications Officer; Sammy Gyamfi, Director of Elections and IT; Dr Omane Boamah among others.
Addressing the media, Mr Kwetey said the meeting with the Police was to get confirmation on the route for the demonstration.
He noted that, participants will converge at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and march through Farisco, TUC, the ministries, to the parliament house and end at the EC office.
“We had a very good meeting with the regional police bosses and the agreement is that we are going to proceed with our demonstration on the 17th of this month. And it’s going to happen not just in Greater Accra but in all the other regions of the country at the same time.
“We wanted to have a confirmation about the endpoint – in terms of the route, we had an agreement that we are going to start from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, proceed through Farisco Traffic Light through to TUC, continue through the Ministry and come all the way to Parliament and end up in front of the premises of the Electoral Commission,” he said
The General Secretary added that the demonstration against the EC goes beyond the party, stressing that the country is heading toward critical elections and it is in everyone’s interest to ensure that the voters’ register is credible and trustworthy.
“There are issues and we are pressing for a forensic audit to be done, that’s actually the reason why we want to embark on this demonstration. As the NCO just rightly said, if there is nothing to hide, I think there should really be no problem at all, they should open their door and say come and check and be certain that there is nothing in order for the whole country to proceed knowing that everything is okay,” he added.
Mr Kwetey charged all Ghanaians to come out in their numbers to participate in the march to protect the integrity of the register and ensure a credible election.
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