Dear Justice Srem-Sai!
Stop peddling untruths with regards to your claim that the demonstrators would be allowed to protest against galamsey because President Mahama understands the true meaning of the constitution and the rights of citizens to express their views through demonstrations.
Your claim is logically pathetic. If the government was comfortable with the demonstration, why did the Attorney General through the police go to court in the first place?
You were bent on ensuring that the demonstration was put on ice, the reason the police took the matter to court.
You retreated because your application for the injunction was incompetent and you also saw the situation to be a hopeless one, hence the need to retreat.
The law is that, every respondent needs 3 clear days after service of any process before he/she can respond so you people knew that you failed to apply to the court for an abridgment of time and so technically the demonstrators could have asked the court to throw out your case.
This post of yours is a face-saving attempt to create a certain impression. It is just an afterthought; lawyers for the organizers vehemently opposed to the recommendations from the police.
The organizers, yesterday, were invited to a meeting with their lawyers to meet the police hierarchy, only to be slapped with an order for prohibition right in the office of the Gt. Accra regional police commander by a court bailiff who originally was not part of the meeting.
Who invited the bailiff to that meeting and why didn’t the police inform the organizers that they’d be served with a court order when they attend the meeting?
The organizers were served on Thursday 24th April 2025 at exactly 11:23 am and were expected to be in court to respond on Friday 25th April 2025 at 9:00am.
At what point did your office decide to withdraw the matter? You noticed that there were procedural flaws in your application and so if you hadn’t withdrawn, it would’ve caused you an irreparable embarrassment.
Ordinarily, after Easter breaks, courts do not sit until the following week, but you were able to arrange for a court to hear the matter.
But for the fact you noticed some flaws in the process, and saw that there was no way you would succeed with your injunction application, the judge would have done your bidding by adjudicating the matter.
Stop creating the erroneous impression that the government, at all material times, was for the demonstration to take place when you know that you placed impediments in the way of the demonstrators but for the flaws you discovered in your own process.
The police didn’t go to court at your blindside. You authorized it. You abandoned the case when you realized you would fail to stop the demonstrators.
P.K.Sarpong,
Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place
