General News of Wednesday, 5 February 2020Source: GNAPolice presence ensure safe demonstration - Kwesi OforiChief Superintendent Kwesi OforiThe Ghana Police Service and the Military on Tuesday provided adequate protection to demonstrators of the ‘Interparty Resistance Against the New Voters Register from Kawukudi Park to the Electoral Commission (EC) Head Office. The presence of the joint security enforcement for the demonstration could be seen along the routes used by the protester from the early hours of Tuesday till demonstrators ended their protest. Chief Superintendent Kwesi Ofori, Director of Operations, Accra Regional Command, Ghana Police Service said they had provided such security presence to ensure the safety of protestors as well as EC officials. “The entire exercise was peaceful; there was no fight between protestors and the men on the ground,” he said. Some of the inscriptions on the cards included; ‘New Voters Register is Needless’, ‘Atta Adwoa Jean Mensah Don’t create Problem where there is none’, ‘Nana Drop the Register and pay contractors’ amongst others.

Source: GhanaWeb February 05, 2020 02:15 UTC