Nine opposition political parties are bracing up for a street protest on Thursday, February 7, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nine opposition political parties are bracing up for a street protest on Thursday, February 7, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n The Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty, comprising the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), the Ghana Consolidated People\u2019s Party (GCPP), the Democratic People\u2019s Party (DPP), the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC), United Front Party (UFP),\u00a0 the EGLE Party and the All People\u2019s Congress (APC), is hitting the streets over the violence that rocked last weeks by-election at the Ayawaso West Wuogon.<\/span><\/p>\n They hope to send a strong message to the New Patriotic Party (NPP)-led government \u201cabout the barbaric and brutal violence that characterised the conduct\u2019 of the elections \u201cas well as the growing atmosphere of insecurity in the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Convener of the street protest\u00a0dubbed \u2018Aagbe <\/span>wo<\/span>\u00a0Demonstration\u2019 \u2013 or \u2018You are killing us demonstration\u2019 \u2013 Bernard Monah, said in a press statement that the opposition parties hope to\u00a0draw public attention to the \u201clooming threat on [Ghana\u2019s] democracy, peace and stability.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The parties are also demanding for proper and speedy investigations into events of last Thursday’s by-election.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs required by the Public Order Act 1994, Act 491, we wrote to notify the police and have subsequently had a fruitful meeting with the Greater Accra Regional Command. We assured them of our commitment to conduct a very peaceful and non-violent demonstration,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n The converging point for the demonstration is the\u00a0 Old Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle at\u00a06am.<\/span><\/p>\n The route for the protest march\u00a0is as follows: Obra Spot to\u00a0Farrisco traffic light to UTC to High Street- Ministry of Interior to Police Headquarters to Flagstaff House.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe are by this statement calling on all well-meaning Ghanaians to join in this mass action against oppression, injustice, electoral violence, vigilantism, police brutalities, rampant kidnapping and the breakdown of law and order,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n Violence ensued at La Bawalashie when\u00a0masked men who are alleged to have fired gunshot and\u00a0even slapped Ningo-Prampram MP Samuel George.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The MP, in a video, appeared to be questioning the security personnel during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election last Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The men, dressed in black polo shirts and khaki trousers stormed the La Bawaleshie Primary School polling station where voting was ongoing to elect a new MP following the death of Kyeremanteng Agyarko.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The violence has been widely condemned.<\/span><\/p>\n