The Minority in Parliament has selected Tuesday, October 3 as the new date for its demonstration against the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and his two deputies.
The new date was agreed to with the Accra Regional Police Command after a crunch meeting on Monday, September 11.
The demonstration will also trail a different route from the previous ones tabled in the notices to the police.
Dubbed #OccupyBOGProtest, the demonstration was cancelled on two successive occasions after a disagreement over the route.
The initial date for the action was Tuesday, September 5 but the Command secured an interim injunction, which is still before the Accra High Court.
After a fresh notice was served the police by the Minority to demonstrate on Tuesday, September 12, exactly a week after the first scheduled demonstration, the police secured another injunction for which Monday’s meeting was called.
“We are constrained by new developments to now hold the demonstration against the ills of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and his two deputies on Tuesday, October 3, 2023,” the Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, told journalists after the meeting.
He further explained: “At today’s meeting, at the Greater Accra Regional Police Command, the police could not determine the boundaries of their so-called security zone of the bank of Ghana.
“We consider the posture of the police as a deliberate attempt to frustrate and scuttle our peaceful #OccupyBOGProtest.
“In the interest of public safety and security and in order not to provide an excuse for the Ghana Police Service to further shirk their constitutional obligation to provide protection for the upcoming peaceful protest, we have agreed on this new date with a new route.”
The Ajumako-Enya-Essiam Member of Parliament (MP) says a notice has been sent to the police, who have promised to reply on Monday.
He said public sensitisation on the upcoming protest will intensify until the day it is staged.