AFAG demonstration slated for tomorrow
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Aug 3, Ghanadot - Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), a political pressure group, is hitting the streets of Accra tomorrow to protest against the depreciating living conditions of Ghanaians. The group said it wanted to draw attention to what it called President Mills’ “arrogant determination not to listen to the concerns of Ghanaians.”

Mr. Daniel Marfo Ofori-Atta, a leading member of AFAG in an interview with Joy FM said the group wanted to hold the president to public honesty.

He said after promising Ghanaians a better Ghana, President Mills was now presiding over the worst form of poor conditions of service and that though Ghanaians were promised a drastic reduction in fuel prices, the price of the commodity had rather been drastically increased.

Mr. Ofori-Atta noted that the World Bank conditionalities – removal of subsidies on utilities, freeze on public sector employment – have further imposed hardship on the citizenry.

The demonstrators will tomorrow converge at Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle. at 6:00 AM and will proceed from the Obra Spot through the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue to the Farisco Traffic Lights.

They will then turn left to the hall of the Trades Union and proceed through the Ministries. They will terminate at the Hearts Park, opposite the Department of National Lotteries, where various speakers will address them.

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