The convener of pressure group, #FixTheCountry movement, Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, is alleging that the Akufo-Addo government and the National Security Minister, Kan Dapaah, offered him money and appointments to stop his activism.
He, however, rejected the offers, and that was the reason why his group and members were being intimidated and harassed for demanding better governance.
Addressing journalists on September 22, after his release and that of his colleagues from cells, he said they were invited to a meeting by the National Security Minister at a secret location.
The National Security Minister threatened to ensure they were arrested if they continued with their protests, he added.
He said: “Unknown to the government, we have recordings, while I was in the UK, the National Security Minister [Kan Dapaah], called and invited me for a sit-down. The government offered to pay for my flight, in order to meet here in Ghana.
“This was something that was never disclosed to the public, but we met at a safe house, for us to stop our activism, this was way before we started the first #FixTheCountry demonstration. We were offered not only money but appointments, and if we agreed to stop this, we were going to be free, but the most important thing was not to bring citizens onto the streets.
“When we rejected that, Kan Dapaah, the National Security Minister, said to my face that if we decide to continue on this course of action, we will be arrested. We will be dealt with and that, it will be over his dead body any demonstrations will happen. At the time we were even in Supreme Court at the time”
“So I was not surprised that I was ultimately arrested by the government and continue being charged for treason. For over two years now, the government has tried to prevent us from mobilising people,” he claimed.
“If there’s anybody out there who is afraid for their lives, I implore them not to come, the purchase of our democracy should not be that people should lose their lives, in order to secure it. I don’t subscribe to that view, My belief is that those who have every faith in themselves and feel courage and the compulsion must step out. If it is five people, we are still going to be here,” he advised.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
