Conveners for the Fix the Country Movement have apologised to the public for planning to embark on an armed demonstration on June 4.
In a statement, the conveners admitted that their approach to ”addressing Police brutality and other problematic crowd control tactics is flawed”.
They noted that they take seriously all the concerns and subsequent backlash from the public on hearing about the armed demonstration.
The Movement says they will commit to actively ensuring that their activities and all attendees will be kept safe.
They will also recommit to continue to fight for victims of Police brutality whom the Movement intends to keep at the centre of their work.
The apology comes after #FixTheCountry served a notice to the Police on their decision to embark on a demonstration against the Agyapa deal and cessation of the Achimota Forest Reserve.
In their notice, they requested to be allowed to contract private security personnel to protect the demonstrators. Among other things, they also notified the Police that the demonstrators and the contracted private security personnel will be armed with weapons.
The armed demonstrators they noted will picket the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and the Ghana Police Headquarters.
A position that has generated some questions bogging down to breach of safety and security laws.
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