The Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jane Naana Opoku- Agyemang has condemned the courts’ decision to remand protesters of democracy hub.
According to her, ‘’the reports of manhandling, arrests, starvation, denial of access to family and legal counsel by the police as well as the subsequent remand of the protesters, including a pregnant lady, by an Accra Circuit Court are alarming’’.
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has urged the government to desist from suppressing the rights of Ghanaians to protest, especially as protests are fundamental to human rights.
She however, expects authorities to re-direct their clampdown on the protesters towards a genuine fight against illegal mining and its harmful effects on water bodies, the health of the people, destruction of cocoa farms and the implications for food security.
‘’It is incongruous that those actively behind illegal mining are freely walking about and smiling all the way to the bank while protesters who are concerned about the harmful impact of illegal mining are rather being suppressed.