Lead Convenor of the #FixtheCountry Movement, Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has launched a scathing attack on the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over its handling of the planned demonstration against the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and his two deputies.
The protest known as the #OccupyBoG demo has suffered several setbacks after the police filed an injunction motion to get the NDC MPs to alter their routes.
That case has since been adjourned to September 18, 2023, for the police service to amend its suit which effectively puts the Tuesday, September 12 protest in another limbo.
Taking to X (formerly known as Twitter) on Saturday, September 9, 2023, Barker-Vormawor expressed his disappointment with the NDC, particularly its members of parliament, accusing them of being easily misled by the government and the courts.
In his tweet, Barker-Vormawor highlighted that the NDC’s decision to take the matter to court had backfired as they had chosen the same judge who presided over the application to freeze the assets of Cecilia Dapaah. He believed that this judge was biased and would do whatever it took to prevent the protest from happening.
“Sometimes I really do not understand the NDC as a Party. Are they a serious opposition party? NDC MPs claimed they wanted to go and occupy Bank of Ghana on 5th September. The Police go to Court to block the protest. Not just any court. They go to the same judge who sat on the Cecilia Dapaah case.
“The NDC answers the police application, and the hearing was supposed to be delivered on 4th September. At the hearing Edudzi Kudzo Tameklo was brilliant. He punched such fundamental legal flaws in the Police application. But you can know all the law in the world, but if the judge does not work for you, it’s pointless,” he wrote.
“This judge claims that he needs to adjourn the matter to rule. Mind you, the protest was due the next day. He adjourns to 8th September. The NDC postpones the march to 12 September. He comes on 8th September. He says that the Police application was defective. BUT, I am giving the Police one week to go and correct the flaws and come back. ONE MORE WEEK”.
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Sometimes I really do not understand the NDC as a Party. Are they a serious opposition party?
1. NDC MPs claimed they wanted to go and occupy the Bank of Ghana on 5th September.
2. The Police go to Court to block the protest. Not just any court. They go to the same judge who sat on the Cecilia Dapaah case. A blind man could have told you how that case would go.
3. Anyway, so The NDC answers the police application, and the hearing was supposed to be delivered on 4th September. At the hearing Edudzi Kudzo Tameklo was brilliant. He punched such fundamental legal flaws in the Police application. But you can know all the laws in the world, but if the Judge does not work for you, it’s pointless.
4. This judge claims that he needs to adjourn the matter to rule. Mind you, the protest was due the next day. He adjourns to 8th September.
5. The NDC postpones the march to 12 September.
6. He comes on 8th September. He says that the Police application was defective. BUT, I am giving the Police one week to go and correct the flaws and come back. ONE MORE WEEK.
7. Basically, He played the NDC like they were kids. The biggest opposition party. With no less a people than the Minority MPs.
8. What do you hear? Silence
9. I swear if it was FixTheCountry with the kind of following and power the NDC has, we would have called our members to go to the BOG. And let the Government arrest us and let’s see.
Listen, democracy isn’t a spectator sport. If you want to play gentle, tyranny will win always. They will use their courts and their judges. They will make you look unserious.
If this is the attitude of the main opposition party going into the next election, they might as well concede defeat now!
Call up people to match on BOG on Monday. The judge can chew the case!
Sometimes I really do not understand the NDC as a Party. Are they a serious opposition party?
1. NDC MPs claimed they wanted to go and occupy Bank of Ghana on 5th September.
2. The Police go to Court to block the protest. Not just any court. They go to the same judge who sat…
— Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor (@barkervogues) September 9, 2023
