Pressure group Arise Ghana has said its planned demonstration for Tuesday, 28 June 2022, will still come.

According to the group, its lawyers have “consequently filed a Notice of Appeal and an application for a stay of execution” of an earlier court order against the planned march.

In a statement issued by the group following the ruling of the court on the approved time and route for the demonstration, as proposed by the Ghana Police Service, Arise Ghana noted: “The police has been duly served”.

“The demonstration will come off as planned”, the group said, adding: “Protesters shall be converging on the Obra Spot/Kwame Nkrumah Interchange between the hours of 10AM and 12PM.”

It also noted the reasons for the 2-day demonstration.

To “protest against persistent and astronomical hikes in fuel prices by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government that has imposed excruciating economic hardships on Ghanaians; protest against the imposition of the obnoxious E-Levy on the already-burdened Ghanaian people by the insensitive Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government and demand its immediate repeal; demand a full scale and bi-partisan parliamentary probe into COVID-19 expenditures”.

“Protest against the grabbing of State lands by officials of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, particularly the de-classification of huge portions of the Achimota Forest reserve; protest against the increased rate of police brutalities and state-sponsored killing of innocent Ghanaians, as well as the growing culture of human rights abuses under the watch of President Akufo-Addo and Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and demand the total cancelation of the fraudulent ‘Agyapa’ deal.”