The Progressive People's Party (PPP) has condemned the and the Judiciary for what the party describes as the 'high-handedness' towards some protestors who took to the streets on Sunday, September 22, to demonstrate against the menace of illegal mining.
The PPP stated in a letter dated September 26, 2024, that the Police Service and the Judiciary of Ghana dealt wrongly with the protestors who were protesting within the remits of the law.
A group of demonstrators, otherwise known as the 'Democracy Hub', on Sunday, September 22, embarked on a demonstration across some principal streets in Accra to register their displeasure about the negative impact of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, thereby calling for the declaration of a state of emergency as a way of putting a stop to all forms of small-scale mining.
The demonstration saw a turn of events as the police arrested some persons supposedly flouting the law.