The Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP), Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, has denied reports claiming that a 62-year-old woman was arrested during the recent Democracy Hub demonstration in Accra.

A number of people were arrested during the protests after the demonstrators and police clashed.

The protests which were intended to express opposition to illegal mining, economic hardship, and other relevant national issues.

But, Kofi Ofosu Nkansah in a Facebook post on Monday, September 23, 2024, denied the claim that the said elderly woman was among those arrested describing the reports as false and misleading.