The running mate of the (NDC), Prof. , has expressed serious concerns about the high-handed treatment meted out to peaceful protesters of the recent three-day demonstration in Accra.
She said 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.
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Opoku-Agyemang said the response of the authorities is brutal and high-handed, raising questions about the government's commitment to its so-called fight against illegal mining and the destruction of Ghana's waterbodies, forests and farmlands.