President of the University of Ghana Raymond Edem Tamakloe branch of TEIN has blamed the Ghana Police Service for their inability to hold their demonstration as planned today.
Mr. Tamakloe told Sena Nombo on the Gold Power Drive, they decided to suspend the demonstration after the police threatened at the last minute to arrest any student that used the originally planned route for their demonstration.
The UG TEIN President said the police agreed that the Tuesday 8 February 2022 demonstration would start from Okponglo, through to the Jubilee House where the students would submit a petition to the Presidency, after which the demonstrators would proceed to Parliament to submit another petition.
Raymond Tamakloe said the police out of the blue on Monday 7 February 2022, called him at 9pm and demanded that the converging point be changed from Okponglo to Obra Spot at Circle, a situation that would inconvenience the students who wanted to partake the protest.
He disclosed that the call was followed by a meeting at the instance of the police and attended by high ranking police officers who demanded a change of the converging point and threatened arrests if their demand was not complied with.
Mr. Tamakloe said the organizers led by him had no choice but to call of the demonstrations as they felt threatened and worried by the interest exhibited in the issue by the IGP Dr. George Akufo-Dampare.
He said IGP consistently called Director General of Operations and Administration who were in the meeting to insist that the police got their way.
TEIN has been mobilizing university students for a demonstration to manifest their unhappiness at government’s sluggish handling of the strike called by their lecturers.
University lecturers under the umbrella of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) have been on strike since January 13, 2022 in demand for improved conditions of service.
Story: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com
