Arthur Kobina Kennedy writes: The people’s movement on the street

According to a report by Reuters, a demonstrator, Romeo, told reporters, “the average Ghanaian can’t afford three square meals per day — the government doesn’t care.”

On Thursday, September 21st, our Founders’ Day, the Ghana Police announced that it had detained 49 people for unlawful assembly.

It is strange that the President who rose to prominence as a protester; organized for the PMFJ in 1977 and led the Kume Preko demonstration in 1996 now leads a government whose police are detaining people for being “citizens, not spectators.”