Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a prominent leader of the #FixtheCountry# Movement, has criticized the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for their handling of the planned #OccupyBoG# demonstration against the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and his deputies.
In a post shared on 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 falling for government and court tactics.
He pointed out that the judge overseeing the application to halt the protest was the same judge who had presided over the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s application to freeze Cecilia Dapaah’s assets. Barker-Vormawor believed this judge would do everything in his power to prevent the protest.
Barker-Vormawor questioned the seriousness of the NDC as an opposition party, citing their initial intention to occupy the Bank of Ghana on September 5th, which was met with a police court application. He highlighted that despite a compelling defense presented by Edudzi Kudzo Tameklo during the hearing on September 4th, the judge postponed the matter to September 8th, forcing the NDC to reschedule the march to September 12th.
He criticized the judge’s actions, suggesting that the court was being used as a tool by the government. Barker-Vormawor advocated for defying the court’s orders and occupying the Bank of Ghana, even if it meant getting arrested, as he believed that the courts and judges were being manipulated by the government, endangering Ghana’s democracy.
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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 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 law 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!
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