Chairman Of NDC Eastern Regional Legal Team Jabs Ghana Bar Association For Keeping Silence Over Police Brutalities On #OccupyJulorBi House Protestors 

THE CHAIRMAN of the Eastern Regional Legal Team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Lawyer Isaac Minta Larbi, has expressed disappointment in the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) for turning a deaf ear on the gross brutalities meted to the thousands  of #OccupyJulorBiHouse protestors by Ghana Police Service in Accra a couple of days ago.

According to him, it is unfortunate the GBA has been silent over such serious breaches of human rights by the police.

"At a time like this the GBA should have been the first to issue a statement condemning the conduct of the police.However its almost 48 hours since these unlawful arrests and brutalities against innocent citizens but not a word from the GBA.Sometimes you wonder what the GBA is really about," Lawyer Larbi noted.

According to him, this is an institution of lawyers and lawyers are the defense of people's rights so it becomes unacceptable that the GBA which is the mouthpiece of lawyers would be quiet over such an issue.

However, he mentioned that it is not surprising because many have said that the GBA always go to sleep when NPP is in power and that is exactly what seems to be playing itself over and over again.

"Should the GBA wake up and begin to talk on national issues when NDC is in power it would definitely confirm the suspicions of everyone.

"In any case we wait to see whether the GBA would refuse to sleep when NDC takes power in 2024.

"If one looks at how the GBA at its recent Bar conference at Cape Coast allow President Akuffo Addo and the Attorney General Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame to do politics using the platform provided by the GBA to attack incoming President John Mahama, one would understand why the GBA is deafening silent on such brutalities on innocent citizens," he noted.

According to him, since it is no longer surprising Ghanaians would have to advise themselves.

He stressed that Ghanaians need to gird their loins going into elections 2024 because it seems some policemen have been readied for such arbitrary arrests, detentions, and abuse of power in an attempt to silence everyone but they would not succeed.

He indicated that in 2024 Ghanaians will take back their country from the NPP whether they like it or not and return the Great NDC to power.

"When that happens we expect the GBA to continue sleeping," Lawyer Isaac Minta Larbi noted.