According to the party, state institutions are being used to target its former officials and supporters through politically motivated prosecutions.
NPP National Youth Organiser, Salam Mustapha, said the demonstration was duly cleared with the Ghana Police Service under the Public Order Act, adding that the protest is meant to send a strong signal against what the party terms as the government’s abuse of state power.
The action comes on the heels of a series of arrests of prominent NPP members. These include Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, who was detained by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), and another regional chairman, Kwame Baffoe, alias Abronye DC, who was also picked up by police.
The NPP further alleged that several of its members and sympathisers are being harassed and arrested under politically influenced investigations.
The party said today’s protest is intended to demand fairness and to shine a spotlight on what it insists is the government’s “misapplication of justice.”