Alhassan Tampuli Sulemana, the Member of Parliament for Gushegu and Deputy Minister of Transport, has expressed disappointment in the organizers of the #OccupyJulorbiHouse protests, labeling their efforts as a failure due to their inability to submit a petition outlining their concerns.
Alhassan Sulemana said that he had been designated by the government to receive the petition from the Democracy Hub group, which orchestrated the protests.
However, to his dismay, the group failed to present any concrete concerns during the demonstrations.
"It became very necessary for us to meet them. At some point, I was told, for instance, that all of them wanted to come. So we said, okay, we will move to where you are if you just want to present a petition. I will move under escort to wherever they were.
"That was when I was told that actually there was no petition. So, it is like a right that has been exercised, but the point hasn't been drummed home. So the leadership actually failed,” Citinewsroom quoted the lawmaker.
Last week, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Accra for three days of anti-government protests, citing economic hardship as their primary concern.
The first day of protests resulted in dozens of arrests as demonstrators, some waving placards and the Ghanaian flag, expressed frustration over the high cost of living and a lack of job opportunities.
Ghana, known for its gold, oil, and cocoa production, has been grappling with its worst economic crisis in a generation, largely driven by soaring public debt.
Despite the police filing an injunction application on September 20 to prevent the Democracy Hub group from proceeding with their planned protest, the group's leaders insisted on moving forward.
On September 21, the police prevented the group from gathering at the Jubilee House, resulting in the arrest of 49 Democracy Hub members.
Undeterred, the group continued their protest on Friday and Saturday, although their attempts to march to the Jubilee House were blocked by law enforcement.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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These two ediots,@kofi and @andrew should ***barred word***! You think Ghanaians are binary thinkers whose only obsessesion is with NPP/NDC? Your two uzless parties which have destroyed the country will be voted out of power to your utter shock. So anything against the government must be coming from NDC? Only an ediot thinks about political parties instead of thinking about their countries. Do you not see how messed up the economy is? DO you not smell the corruption that is engulfing the nation? Do you not feel the mismanagement of our scarce resources for the benefit of a few tsupid and greedy people? Do you not feel frustration and anger of unemployed graduates? Do you not feel the inflation that has wiped out our savings and investments? Do you not feel the pain of people loosing their loved ones who could have been easily saved because of the total and near-collapse of public health? Yet these tsupid and evil politicians jump into a plane to treat headaches abroad at the expense of tax payers money? Do you not feel the nuisance taxes squeezing the very life out of businesses and sending employees home? You think Ghanaians need another uzless party like NDC prompt them to protest? The two uneducated propagandists must ***barred word*** and stop insulting the intelligence of Ghanaians. This demo was not about NDC prompting anything. They are part of the problem just that compared to their last term in office they did far better than this corrupt incompetent regime under nana addo. Baabylons... fire bun dem all! Bomboclat! #Julorbikpakpa
The protesters are aimless unintelligents lazy hungry NDC hogs who just want attention to please their pay masters,otherwise how would they protest without simple petiton enumerating their concern,shame on them.
They are mere jokers, but we need to handle them with care because they are also a front for a more sinister group!