If lawful protesters are hooligans; prepare to taste hooliganism – Apaak to Addison

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak has stated that if the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison can describe peaceful and lawful protesters as hooligans then he should be prepared to taste hooliganism.

This comes on the back of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Ernest Addison describing the protests by the Minority and other groups as hooligans.

The governor further stated that he will not resign.

He made these statements while speaking in an interview with International Business Website, Central Banking. Governor Addison also described the demonstration by the Minority as “completely unnecessary.”

“The demonstration yesterday (October 3, 2023) was completely unnecessary,” Addison said, adding that neither he nor his deputies intend to step down.

“The Minority in Parliament have many channels to channel their grievances in civilised societies, not through demonstrations in the streets as hooligans,” Addison added in reference to the #OccupyBoGProtest.

Commenting on the development the Builsa South lawmaker questioned the grounds on which the Bank of Ghana governor called a peaceful protest as hooligans.

“This USELESS and lawless MisGovernor has the impudence to call us hooligans?” Dr. Apaak asked in a tweet on Thursday October 5, 2023.

He continued: “If demanding his resignation for conniving with the corrupt Akufo-Addo/Bawumia gov’t to bankrupt our national bank via a lawful protest, makes us hooligans, then he should prepare to taste hooliganism.”

Special Aide to former President John Mahama, Felix Ofosu Kwakye on his part has stated that Dr. Addison is “an apology of a Governor who will be long gone in a decent society.”

“A foul-mouthed tirade against protesters from an Akufo-Addo stooge, who is all too willing to destroy the economy at his benefactor’s behest. An apology of a Governor who will be long gone in a decent society,” he stated in a tweet on Wednesday October 4, 2023.

However, with respect to the Central Bank’s 2022 losses, Dr. Addison narrated to the Central Banking that: “the impairment of the bank’s holdings of debt which led to the losses was a conditionality for the IMF programme. Nobody at the Bank of Ghana forgave any debt.”

The governor Addison further explained that the Bank of Ghana decided to start the new headquarters in 2019. This was “when the bank was profitable and appropriated some of its profits for the new headquarters,” he said. “It was not a decision taken during a crisis.”

The Bank of Ghana’s governor has told Central Banking he rejects demands on him to resign made by the country’s main opposition party.

The largest opposition party in Ghana, the National Democratic Congress, and some interest groups in the country embarked on a peace protest march on some principal streets in Accra the capital to the Bank of Ghana’s headquarters on October 3, 2023.

Source: Today.com.gh