CDD Executive Director and Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee, Prof. H Kwesi Prempeh has noted that Freedom of Expression has been given a new lease of live in Ghana. Referring to the ”Save the Judiciary demonstration staged in Acra on Monday May 5th , 2025 by tthe NPP-Coalition, Prof, Prempeh wrote on his Facebook that he is glad to see that Rights have been restored.
”Glad to see Right to Protest finally restored to factory setting”, that is how it must remain going forward”, he wrote.
Below is the entire piece by Prof H Kwesi Prempeh.
”This is how the Constitution envisioned, as pronounced by the Supreme Court in NPP v. IGP (1993), that the constitutional right to freedom of assembly and protest would be exercised by protesters and protected and respected by the State and the Government. Not through ex parte court applications by the Police or AG to prevent the protest from happening or force unreasonably on the protesters a protest route or destination that alters the intended purpose or impact of their protest or by unleashing on the protesters unjustified or excessive force or arresting, harassing, detaining and prosecuting en masse nonviolent protesters without justification. Glad to see the Right to Protest finally restored to factory settings. This is how it must remain going forward.”