A young man in Ghana was arrested on Wednesday for staging a protest at an event being addressed by the country’s first lady, Rebecca Akufo Addo in the capital Accra.
The pharmacy student according to Starr FM was held a placard calling for the opening of a major health facility built by the previous government at the country’s premier university called the University of Ghana Medical Centre.
Police officers detailed the man identified as Sekyi-Brown Reginald, for hours after he was said to have posed threat to the President’s wife who was addressing an audience at the Korle Bu hospital which is also a major health facility in Ghana.
Ghana’s first lady had gone there to cut sod for the construction of a paediatric Intensive Care Unit for the hospital but the student and other critics of the government are worried the 650-bed facility at the University of Ghana was yet to be opened.
The hospital is the first of its kind in West Africa and was funded with a loan facility from Harpo Alim Bank of Israel for the project at the cost of $217m.
A witness told Starr FM that “While the first lady was delivering her speech on the sod cutting of the paediatric intensive care unit for the Korle bu teaching hospital, the young man popped up with a placard with the inscription “OPEN UGMC NOW”.
“He was then approached by a police officer to move away from the first lady because he stood right beside her to show her the placard. He was then interrogated”, the eye witness said.
Local media reported on Thursday that after several complaints from students and other citizens the young man was released from police custody.
Source: Africafeeds.com
