A member of the Communications Team of pressure group Democracy Hub has served notice members will hit the streets again.
“We are going back,” Solomon Wise stated on TV3‘s New Day on Monday, September 25, barely 48 hours after joining a three-day demonstration dubbed #OccupyJulorbiHouse.
“We are not giving them rest,” he added, though it is unclear whether he was referring to authorities in power or the police.
But Mr Wise took aim at the police for the handling of protesters on Thursday, September 21, the first day of protest.
All those who showed up were rounded up into a waiting police vehicle.
Mr Wise, narrating his ordeal, said he was part of those picked up, highlighting how he was “bundled” into the police bus.
“When you watch the way they handled us from Thursday up till Saturday, especially on the day of Thursday, the Day of Shame, for me, I would like to advocate the police curriculum that is used to train the police at demo should be really looked at,” he demanded.
He further narrated how they were asked to strip naked after being taken into custody.
“We demanded that we are not going to remove our dresses, so the police were actually acting on the whims and caprices of their superiors and superiors also are acting on the whims and caprices of politicians and the police is not reasoning on their intelligence no more.”
He emphasised: “And at that state, we see the police as enemy of the state because they are no more using any intelligence to work with.”
He revealed that his phone was stolen by the police.
There was relative success to the protest on Friday and Saturday as the protesters were allowed to march from the converging point, 37 Lorry Station, towards the seat of government but only had to be stopped in front of the 37 Military Hospital.
An attempt to box them in on Saturday nearly erupted into chaos as their aggression grew.
They remained at the Akuafo Intersection until they were addressed by Convenor Oliver Barker-Vormawor.