A legal representative of the protesters arrested on Thursday, September 21 over the botched march to the Jubilee House has confirmed that almost all of them have been released.
The police rounded up the protesters at the 37 bus terminal, where they were congregating for the demonstration Thursday morning.
According to the police, an application stopping the demonstration had been filed and served Atuguba & Associates, lawyers of organisers Democracy Hub, as far back as Tuesday , September 19.
However, the organisers defied the police directive to start the march.
Most of them, confirmed by the police as 49 in number, were picked up and sent to various prisons in the capital, Accra.
But speaking on Ghana Tonight on TV3 late Thursday, lawyer Prince Elikplim Ganaku confirmed that all of the protesters have been released.
He said they were released under “quite generous” conditions.
“As far as I know, they should have all been released by now,” he told host Alfred Ocansey.
He disputed the police number, confirming that about 56 of the protesters were arrested.
Meanwhile, the protesters have served notice to protest again on Friday, going by the original plan of picketing at the seat of government for three days.
This man paaa what does he want? Is he after coup d’etat or what? Please Mr Vormawor the peace that we have in Ghana don’t take us back to our old days and your personal interest is plunging our beloved country into something and we all know very well that times are hard but don’t use you personal interest to distroy Ghana and with all that you are doing, you think any president will come to power today and things we will change at once? big no the NDC will also come and mess it more because mahama is having only four years and for that four years do you think he will work for the interest of Ghanaians? he will make sure all that he left before 2016 he will make sure he succeed in everything or if it’s a position that you are fighting for then leave Ghanaians alone.
My fellow Ghana, we should stop paying huge sums of money going to our universities let us focus on Technical and vocational training so that by the end of everything you can start doing something for yourself.