The GFD had planned to embark on a series of demonstrations for 10 days effective Thursday
The Accra Regional Police Command has secured a restraining order prohibiting members of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) from embarking on a planned demonstration scheduled for Thursday, 18 February, 2021.
The Accra High Court under Justice Elfreda Amy Dankyi prohibited members of the group from embarking on the protest in a matter that was brought before it between the Republic (Ghana Police Service) and the GFD and Rita Kusi Kyeremaa.
A statement issued the Regional Public Affairs Unit of the Ghana Police, signed by Chief Inspector Bright Kwabena Danso of the Public Affairs Unit and released on Wednesday, 17 February 2021, said: “The prohibition order follows an Affidavit filed by the Police upon receipt of notification from the Executive Director of the GFD, Rita Kusi Kyeremaa, on the intended demonstration.”
They also carried placards with inscriptions aimed at Madam Jean Mensa and the Electoral Commission. The national leadreship of the NDC has rejected the results of the 2020 presidential elections and are challenging the results at the Supreme Court. Prior to that, the party staged a series of demonstrations in different cities across the country. On December 23, 2020 the Ghana Police secured an injunction banning the NDC from protesting in the capital city Accra. The Police Command in a statement issued on December 23, 2020, explained that the prohibition order follows an affidavit filed by the Police upon receipt of notification from the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of NDC, Kobina Ade Coker, on the party’s intentions to stage protests in constituencies across the Greater Accra region.
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Police secured wrong order to ban NDC protest – Asiedu Nketia
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has dismissed a court order by the Accra Regional Police Command restraining the NDC from further protests against the election 2020 results in Accra.
According to Mr Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito, the order secured by the Police is wrong and does not change anything as far their protests are concerned.
“The court has ruled that you cannot stop people from demonstrating with an ex parte order,” Mr Asiedu Nketia said on GHONE TV Thursday in an interview with Serwah Amihere.
The leadership of the main opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) has described as wrong order, the Police directive to the NDC blocking them from further holding street protests in the capital, Accra
Speaking on GHOne TV on Thursday, the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah said the police acted wrongly by stopping their demonstrations with an exparte motion.
“It has been established, so what did they think they’re doing? they are just playing games, and as we sit here nobody has been served with any process. It means that nothing exists. The Police cannot go and claim they have secured an exparte motion, nobody had been served with that motion and then they themselves will go and then issue a statement that they have secured exparte motion so so and so…when they themselves know that the established principle is that you cannot stop demonstrations with exparte motions; you must come with motions on notice.” he told Serwah Amihere on GH Today.