Fixing the Country Movement has notified the Ghana Police Service of their intention to exercise their constitutional rights under Article 21(1)(d) and (f) of the 1992 Constitution to picket at the office of former President John Mahama on October 16 2023.
About two weeks ago, Fixing the Country Movement notified the police service of their intention to engage in picketing and public manifestation at the frontage of the office of former President John Mahama.
It has been a marathon back and forth with the police regarding the date of the protest. The group has announced that on Thursday, 16th of November, 2023 has been slated as the day for their public manifestation.
Fixing the Country Movement is organizing this public manifestation as a result of the nonchalant attitude being deployed by their investigative authorities on the Airbus corruption saga.
Fixing the Country Movement holds the view that Mr Mahama has a lot of questions to answer and as such we want to pursue a public manifestation to bring attention to the issues that have been allowed to die a natural death by our investigative authorities. They believe in public accountability and want to reiterate the point that no one is above accountability.
“As you may all be aware, it has been over three years since Airbus SE, a global provider of civilian and military aircraft based in France, agreed to pay combined penalties of nearly $ 4 billion to resolve foreign bribery charges with authorities in the United States, France and the United Kingdom arising out of the Company’s scheme to use third-party business partners to bribe government officials around the world.”
Speaking at a press conference today Ernest Owusu Bempah Convener of Fixing the Country movement said judicial records made public on 31st January, 2020 by the British and American authorities, which Airbus acknowledges to be true, show that between 2009 and 2015 an Airbus subsidiary specialising in the defence sector hired the brother of a high-ranking Ghanaian elected official(Government Official 1), as well as a friend of the said brother and a third person to serve as commercial partners in the sale of three military transport aircraft, model C295, to Ghana.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com / Bernard K Dadzie
