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02.03.2015 Regional News

Chiefs And People Of Manya Krobo Banned From Demonstrating Against EC

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By Isaac Amoah Asare

Koforidua High Court has banned the Chiefs and people of Manya Krobo from going on their planned demonstration on Tuesday March 3, 2015 against the Electoral Commission.

The restraining order which was served on three respondents including Nene Asada Ahor I, Chief of Akuse and PRO of the Manya Krobo Traditional Council with suit number D16/117/2015 and signed by Philip Yekple, Registrar of the Court has prohibited the demonstration or any such activity in the Krobo area from 1st to 15th March, 2015. No reason has however been given by the Police or the Court for the restraining order.

The Chiefs and people were gearing up to pour on the street to, in their words, defend the Constitution of the Republic and draw public and national attention to the institutional impunity on the part of the electoral commission(EC) which was bending the laws to illegally conduct the assembly elections in the Natriku electoral area at Akuse under the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region instead of the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. This according to the people was a clear breach of the 1992 Constitution and a disregard for the Supreme Court's judgment on the issue.

Until the service of the Restraining Order by the Court on Saturday February 28, 2015, which the people consider a repressive tactic by the state apparatus to silence them and to deny them their rights to demonstrate, tension was mounting in the area with the various chiefs rallying their subjects to join the youth in Tuesday's street protest.

Spokesperson for Kloma Gbi, Hilary Saki Kodji said “We find it strange why we should be prevented by the Police without justification from exercising our constitutional rights. All the same, we will respect the Court because we are law-abiding; we will push the date for the demonstration further but the agitation continues aggressively and we will be bold in doing this until someone gives us a listening ear or the issue is logically resolved”.

Meanwhile the people look forward to get feedback from both government and the EC as the supreme court has ordered the EC to restart the whole process.

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