The police have picked up all persons who showed up at the 37 lorry station Thursday morning apparently to join the planned demonstration at the Jubilee House.
Before the action, the police had warned the public not to honor any calls to join the protest march to the seat of government.
But leaders of Democracy Hub, organizers of the three-day picketing, had called the bluff of the police, insisting the protest would go ahead as scheduled.
They had adduced that the supposed application filed at the High Court by the Accra Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service had not been served to them.
The police, in a last-minute warning, clarified that the service was done on Tuesday, September 19 through the organizers’ lawyers, Atuguba & Associates.
“We, therefore, urge the general public in the interest of public order and public safety to disregard any invitation by the organizers to take part in any unlawful demonstration,” the police warned in its statement on Wednesday night.
But the protesters showed up at the converging point Thursday morning.
They were rounded up into a waiting police bus and split into the various police stations;
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LIST OF DEMONSTRATORS WHO WERE ARRESTED THIS MORNING AT THE #OCCUPYJULORBIHOUSE PROTEST AND THE POLICE STATION CELLS THEY ARE DETAINED IN
1. Railways Police Station
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Oliver Barker-Vormawor2. Chorkor Police Station
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Delali Goldheart
Belinda Osei…— Serwaa Amihere (@Serwaa_Amihere) September 21, 2023
