Kofi Bentil, senior vice president of IMANI Africa, has asked the government to take the concerns of the ‘Ku Me Preko Reloaded’ demonstrators seriously.
According to a private legal practitioner, the protesters strongly support their demands.
According to him, the concerns of these demonstrators are shared by the majority of Ghanaians.
Mr. Bentil urged policymakers to consider factors other than the number of people involved.
As a result, he praised the protest’s organizer, Martin Kpebu.
“First, let me say that Martin (Martin Kpebu) has already succeeded. Martin has made his points and has stood by his attributes.
“He is one of us but he didn’t really mobilize all of us to join he went on and already he has built a coalition around himself and so it is not going to be about the numbers but about the fact that one man stood and made the point against all odds and he will manage to get a good number of Ghanaians on street today and even those who are not able to join like me, his message resonates with us.
“You may not ask for exactly what he is asking for but nobody denies that he has a strong message and those who ought to have to listen, have to look beyond the numbers and take notes of what he is saying,” he said.
Demonstrators led by private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu are calling for President Akufo-Addo to resign over Ghana’s current economic woes.
Some civil society organizations, including the #FixTheCountry Movement, Arise Ghana, the Economic Fighters League, and other activists, have joined the protesters, claiming that the President and his government have done insufficient to alleviate the plight of citizens in the country’s struggling economy.
In an earlier media interview, Martin Kpebu stated that the wanton corruption and mismanagement of the economy show that Ghanaians cannot wait until the end of Mr. Akufo-four-year Addo’s term.
He stated that following today’s protest, the president and his vice president should leave the office to allow the constitutional provision for his replacement to be activated.
“We are dying; citizens are dying; citizens can’t afford food; citizens are starving all because of misgovernance by President Akufo-Addo. It never happened that you have a president in office and every time the country borrows, the president’s family becomes richer; how?”
“This can’t continue. We can’t borrow all the time and have Databank becoming richer all the time. Citizens have a duty as stated in Article 41 [of the Constitution] to ask the president to resign; this is not the first time that a president of Ghana will resign,” Martin Kpebu said.
