The vice presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof.
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, is deeply concerned about the high-handed treatment meted out to peaceful protesters of the recent three-day demonstration in Accra.
The reports of manhandling, arrests, starvation, denial of access to family and legal counsel by the police as well as the subsequent remand of the protesters, including a pregnant lady, by an Accra Circuit Court are alarming.
That the response of the authorities is brutal and high-handed raises questions about the government's commitment to its so called fight against illegal mining and the destruction of Ghana's waterbodies, forest and farmlands.