In a moving address directed at police officers deployed to offer protection for the #OccupyBoGProtest, National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia told them if anything untoward happens, they will have to take the blame.
Mr Asiedu Nketia said they are on a mission of a peaceful march to the head office of the Bank of Ghana to present a petition to the Governor, Dr Ernest Addison.
However, it is the police who are trying hard to stop them.
Speaking in Twi ahead of the march on Tuesday, October 3, the NDC National Chairman said they will go by the plan to present the petition directly to Governor Addison.
He said they will not go by any other instruction regarding the route.
For that matter, he charged all participants to follow the express directions of the National Communications Officer of the NDC.
The disagreement over the route has led to the postponement of the protest twice.
It was first scheduled to be staged on Tuesday, September 5 but there was a last-minute injunction secured by the police from the Accra High Court.
Another notice by the Minority to demonstrate exactly a week later was also rejected by the police.
A third attempt to secure a court injunction was rejected as the processes to serve respondents were held as ineffective.
The police have maintained that the area of the head office of the Bank of Ghana was a security zone.
But Mr Asiedu Nketia said the Bank of Ghana head office can worst be described as a “crime scene”.
Therefore, he said, the protesters must be allowed to go to the “scene” to stop the rot and corruption happening.
The protest is to force the Governor and his two deputies, Dr Maxwell Opoku-Afari and Elsie Addo Awadzi, to resign from their positions.
This is primarily due to the GH¢60.8 billion loss recorded in 2022.
The protesters also claim the erection of a $200 million ultra-modern head office is not necessary.
Mr Asiedu Nketia said the Central Bank continues to perpetrate crime on innocent citizens and it is important they march there to express their displeasure.
