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Kume preko reloaded demo: Kpebu made fundamental errors – Pratt
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Vida Essel-LampteyManaging Editor of the Insight, Mr Kwasi Pratt Jnr who has many years of experience in organizing demonstrations in Ghana, has said that organizers of the Kume Preko reloaded demonstration, led by private legal Practitioner Martin Kpebu, committed fundamental errors.
The first error made was that, Mr Kpebu fell into the trap of distancing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from the exercise.
In his view, Mr Kpebu, when speaking in an interview with a radio station on the exercise, should have accepted that the NDC was part of it when the radio presenter asked whether the largest opposition party was behind the exercise.
Mr Pratt indicated that Kpebu should have answered that the demonstration was opened to all political parties including the NDC and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Secondly, he said, the choice of the Black Star Square as the end point for the protest was wrong.
That venue, he said, was too big therefore, it exposed the number of protestors who took part in the exercise thereby, devaluing it.
“The organizers of the Kume Preko reloaded made serious fundamental mistakes, they fell into traps,” Mr Pratt said speaking during the Political dialogue series organized by Media General on Wednesday November 8.
“You devalued the demonstration by choosing Black Stars Square,” he added.
Mr Martin Kpebu after the demonstration asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to resign immediately.
He accused the President of enriching himself and his family at the expense of the tax payer.
Addressing the crowd that attended the demonstration in Accra he said “we are calling on the trio thus, President Akufo-Addo, Vice President Bawumia and then Ken Ofori-Atta to resign immediately or less by Wednesday because as we all know, for every Cedi, for every Dollar that we borrow as a country President Akufo-Addo ‘s family gets richer through Ken Ofori-Atta.”
The protest was against the economic hardships in the country as well as the failure of the government to act to salvage the situation.
The lead organizer of the protest was private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu who has called for the resignation of the President and his Vice.
Source: 3news.com
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