Chanting and waving banners with such slogans a: Everybody is Suffering, Fix the country; and Ghanians are Dying, Akufo-Addo Wake Up, several thousand protesters marched peacefully in the Ghanian capital.
“The police is filled with tyrants and vigilante groups,” Alisu Ibrahim, a protest organiser said. “They have been killing our people. That is why we are demonstrating.”
Others waved banners attacking economic hardship and joblessness, referencing the #FixTheCountry hashtag that has become a popular social media protest on Twitter in Ghana.
Tuesday’s rally was the first major protest by the National Democratic Congress since March, when a top court dismissed the opposition party’s challenge to Akufo-Addo’s re-election victory late last year.
Akufo-Addo won a second term but gained only a small majority in parliament.
He has since been under pressure from political opponents as Ghana struggles with economic woes amplified by the coronavirus pandemic.