Martin Kpebu, the convener of the Ku Me Preko reloaded demonstration held on Saturday, November 5th 2022, has answered critics on why the protest had such a low turnout, numbering in just hundreds of Ghanaians.
Speaking in an interview with Joy Fm Monday, November 7th, Kpebu said there will be more protests in the coming weeks and that the group needs more funding to enable it to organise them and energise Ghanaians to appear.
“We are still debriefing, it is quite a process. We’ll have other meetings to analyse but even before we were done with this one, we had received invitations from people in Kumasi, Takoradi, and even Tamale to come. So we’ll need funding,” he told hosts on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show
Kpebu said there was a fear among the citizenry of being brutalised by police which kept down the numbers but expressed optimism that now that people have seen how the march was peaceful, more will turn up to make their voices heard in the subsequent demonstrations.
“The numbers will improve because they saw that they were not attacked by the police and we also conducted ourselves well,” he explained in a subsequent interview on Asempa Fm.
Hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets of the capital on Saturday, led by private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu.
The protests, dubbed ‘Ku Me Preko’ reloaded, was modelled after the giant and historic ‘Ku Me Preko’ of the 90s, led by none other than Nana Akufo-Addo.
Kpebu and the protestors called on Akufo-Addo, now President, to step down from his position for his failure in managing the economic condition of Ghanaians.
“We are dying; citizens are dying; citizens can’t afford food; citizens are starving all because of misgovernance by President Akufo-Addo. It never happened that you have a president in office and every time that the country borrows, the president’s family becomes richer; how? This can’t continue,” Martin Kpebu said during the protest.
“We can’t borrow all the time and have Databank becoming richer all the time. Citizens have a duty as stated in Article 41 [of the Constitution] to ask the president to resign and this is not the first time that a president of Ghana is going to resign,” he added.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com