It’s needless to arrest harmless NDC demonstrators – Police told
The arrest of some 26 National Democratic Congress (NDC) demonstrators granted GH¢10,000 bail each during a recent demonstration at the premises of the Electoral Commission has been described as needless according to the party’s leadership.
“These people were harmless. They had no weapons to destabilize the country and their arrest was unwarranted”, Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the party, Theophilus Tettey Chaie said. The demonstrators were charged with unlawful assembling, and failure to notify the police before hitting the streets to register their displeasure on the election results.
Speaking to the arrest on Kumasi-based Akoma FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com, the former NDC lawmaker explained picketing is cannot be described as illegal as being claimed by the police.
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