Thousands of young Ghanaians have poured out onto the streets of Accra to join the #FixTheCountry demonstration Wednesday to pressure the government to institute a raft of reforms.
The hashtag #FixTheCountry started in May this year over mass disillusionment in the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration.
Apart from the main call for economic reforms, there are variations of the movement that are calling for social and political reforms.
For instance, some Ghanaians want aspects of the 1992 Constitution to be amended to reduce excessive Executive power.
Conveners had scheduled an initial May 9 protest date but this was scuttled by an injunction secured by the police against the demonstration over fears that such a mass gathering could be a COVID-19 super spreader.
The Wednesday, August 4, date, which is incidentally a public holiday (Founders’ Day), was set by the #FixTheCountry conveners after a court ruled that the demonstration could go on.
Demonstrators held up placards with various inscriptions, one of which wants the government to 'pay people to work not to talk'.
Police in a statement on Tuesday said they have made adequate security arrangements for the†demonstration.
The conveners have also pledged that all participants will observe COVID-19 protocols.
The route for the demonstration is the stretch from the Obra Spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle through the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue – Farisco Traffic Lights – TUC Traffic Intersection – EOCO – John Evans Atta Mills High Street – and to end at the Black Star Square.
