We are only doing what is right - Police to LMVCA
The Accra Regional Police Command has denied accusations that it is deliberately frustrating pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) from embarking on its planned demonstration.
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The group has accused the police of intentionally frustrating them from picketing at the Electoral Commission (EC) to press home their demands for a new voters register ahead of the 2016 General Elections.
The group on Monday got clearance to go ahead with the demonstration after an Accra Circuit Court declared that the restraining order stopping them from picketing on the premises of the EC had expired its lawful existence.
Later in the day, the police secured an order at another Circuit Court to stop members of the LMVCA from staging their demonstration, a move the group has described frustrating.
But Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Afia Tengey explained that the police was only doing what was right to provide adequate protection for the protestors.
She said, “The police is not in any way trying to put any impediment on anybody’s way. What the police is doing is to ensure that we prepare adequately in number in terms of logistics and in terms of manpower to give the demonstrators the needed security on that day as well as other Ghanaians who may be engaged in other activities.”
“It is not for us to put any impediment on anybody’s way but to give them the needed security. It is not at all for us to frustrate their efforts. Probably that is what people may think but that is not the intention of the police,” she explained.
Meanwhile, there is heavy police presence at the EC to prevent any attempt by protesters of LMVCA to disregard a court injunction against a planned picket.
