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STORY: KORYEKPOR AWLESU FREEMAN AND KWAKU NTI
A large number of Ghanaians yesterday joined AFAG to demonstrate against the Mills administration
“ATTA FOR SALE’; “ATTA BOKO HARAM”; “419 GOVT”, “ATTA NIE, WAYO NIE”; ATTA MAFIA” read some of the placards.
Pro-opposition group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), yesterday picketed in some of the principal streets of Accra to register their dissatisfaction with the ruling administration of Prof. John Evans Atta Mills.
Dubbed: “Atta-Wayo demonstration,” the street protest, which began at the Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle, around 6:30 a.m., saw massive attendants, with the participation of thousands of Ghanaians who believed the current oil prices and economic hardship has had a debilitating toll on their lives.
Accompanied by former ministers in the erstwhile Kufuor administration and Members of Parliament (MPs), the demonstrators who became the talk of town spent hours in the scorching sun sitting and wailing as well as kneeling on the heated asphalted roads at various stops en route to Hearts Park where they were addressed by the organisers.
Presenting the petition of the group to the media, the Deputy Communications Director of opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former Operations Manager of AFAG, Samuel Awuku, appealed to the gathering and Ghanaians to vote out the ruling government in the December polls.
“Let us join hands to show the government, that ultimate power resides in the people,” he said.
“The reason for such a decision, he said, is as a result of the abundant corruption in the current administration including the payment of GH¢58 million of tax payers money to business man and NDC financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome.”
“….If there is indeed a Better Ghana, then it is being felt only by the greedy bastards who are enjoying the largesse of state and profiting from the massive corruption which has been institutionalised by Mills government,” he said.
NPP Deputy Communications Director, Samuel Awuku, addressing the demonstrators
Citing the payment of a colossal amount of GH¢58 million (¢580.00 billion), the building of 20.00million dollar multi-purpose office complex for the ruling party and the subsequent dismissal of Attorney-General, Martin Amidu, as clear examples of corruption, the affable young man appealed to the gathering to as a matter of urgency, reject the suspension of oil subsidies.
AFAG also seized the opportunity to protest alleged corruption at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and called on the Board Chairman, Mr. Kwame Peprah, to come clean within two weeks or be exposed.
“AFAG demands Mr. Kwame Peprah, Board Chairman of SSNIT, to come clean in the role he played in divesting 61.1% of SSNIT shares in the Trust Bank,” he cautioned.