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Organizers of Aagbew) demonstration say they will "resist any attempt" by the security agencies, especially the police, to minimize the impact of their protest march.

According to them, though they have notified the police about their intended route, the police in response, seems not ready to lend them their support.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s "Ade Akye Abia" programme, Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Peter Boamah Otukonor, explained that they have a defined route and therefore only expect the police to accompany them, and not to dictate to them the choice of route they (police) would want them (demonstrators) to use.

He warned that the organisers will strongly resist any attempt by the police to either intimidate them or prevent them from using their prescribed route.

"What has become of our police force now?...can't they be professional for once?" he rhetorically asked.

“As required by the Public Order Act 1994, Act 491, we wrote to notify the police and have subsequently had a fruitful meeting with the Greater Accra Regional Command. We assured them of our commitment to conduct a very peaceful and non-violent demonstration,” he said, adding that the police have no right to deny them their request to use a particular route.

The converging point for the demonstration is the Old Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle at 6am.

The route for the protest march is as follows: Obra Spot to Farrisco Traffic Light to UTC to High Street- Ministry of Interior to Police Headquarters to Flagstaff House.

The Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty, comprising the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention People’s Party (CPP), the Ghana Consolidated People’s Party (GCPP), the Democratic People’s Party (DPP), the People’s National Convention (PNC), United Front Party (UFP), the EGLE Party and the All People’s Congress (APC), plans hitting the streets over the violence that rocked last weeks by-election at the Ayawaso West Wuogon.

The organizers hope to send a strong message to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)-led government “about the barbaric and brutal violence that characterised the conduct’ of the elections, “as well as the growing atmosphere of insecurity in the country.”