{"id":1199471,"date":"2022-09-06T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/it-is-too-worrying-why-all-this-gear-for-unarmed-picketers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:33:36","slug":"it-is-too-worrying-why-all-this-gear-for-unarmed-picketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/it-is-too-worrying-why-all-this-gear-for-unarmed-picketers\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Too Worrying: Why All This Gear For Unarmed Picketers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of citizens went picketing at the Efua Sutherland Park to protest against the muck that’s annually exposed by the Auditor-General’s Report respectively, which sees no attempt to change the status quo. <\/p>\n

They are incensed by the continuing disinterest of the Auditor-General in using his surcharging powers to ensure that every year Ghanaians don’t lose billions of dollars through institutionalized larceny.<\/p>\n

They are not in any public pay role. They are folks awake to the reality that the same politics as usual; the increasing levels of despondency entail a danger for our democracy and the quality of the lives we will live in this democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They are hoping that their picketing moves otherwise lethargic institutions to act differently. But why all this gear for unarmed picketers?\u00a0Our police are becoming increasingly militarized under this Fourth Republic.<\/p>\n

Ironic that the Fourth Republic initially consolidated through protests (Kume Preko in particular) has become quite averse and sensitive to them.<\/p>\n

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A couple of citizens went picketing at the Efua Sutherland Park to protest against the muck that’s annually exposed by the Auditor-General’s Report respectively, which sees no attempt to change the status quo. They are incensed by the continuing disinterest of the Auditor-General in using his surcharging powers to ensure that every year Ghanaians don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12207,25296,25297,3108],"class_list":["post-1199471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-gear","tag-picketers","tag-unarmed","tag-worrying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}