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A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), SaCut Denis Amenga-Etego says it’s totally wrong to stage a demonstration against the government with guns.
 
According to him, the idea for the ‘June 4 ‘armed’ demo’ may have another twist if the organizers are allowed to proceed.
 
Some leaders of the pressure group, #Fixthecountry are seeking clearance to hold a three-day protest starting June 4 against the Akufo-Addo-led government
 
The group had informed police that they will be employing their own security personnel and will be armed, in order to protect the marchers.
 
But SaCut Denis Amenga-Etego who had joined the group and their previous demonstration seem not to support their proposed ‘armed demo’.
 
“Arms” takes on a different meaning when we want to win the hearts and minds of the people against a tyrannical government,” he told the group in a statement copied to Peacefmonline.com.
 
Adding that, “The pen is mightier than the gun. Don’t these so-called intellectuals know this? Or they just got confused for a second?”
 
Read below statement
 
Fixing The Country With “Arms” Of Conviction
 
Mr Kwesi Pratt and company, who wined and dined with the radically extreme left all over the world from Cuba to Bolivia to Iran etc and learned their ways of social and political mobilization for political action - even they never contemplated the idea of an “armed demonstration” on the streets of Ghana.
 
Obviously, they understood the mood and acceptably chosen methods of the people in their activism. They were not confused - not even for a second. And that’s why they had a massive following, at least, until they faded out on the streets and stationed themselves in the studios.
 
Political action requires strategic thinking along with the masses of the people. Once there is confusion about the strategic political goal of a movement, the group is reduced to a vehicle for misguided self-promotional gimmicks.
 
“Arms” takes on a different meaning when we want to win the hearts and minds of the people against a tyrannical government. 
 
We need to be “armed” with the conviction of principles. Armed with social and scientific research and investigative tools to being able to know the exact mood of the masses at every point in time and the prevailing ills of the government. We need to be “armed” with the truth.
 
We must also be armed with a moral high ground. In other words, the integrity of the leaders of any street protest is more inviting to the masses than guns and bullets.
 
The pen is mightier than the gun. Don’t these so-called intellectuals know this? Or did they just got confused for a second?
 
Street protest is a tool for psychological warfare to undermine the prevailing psychology which is out of “manufactured consent” exposing the ills of government and carrying the people along in an effort to wake up the spirit and sense of people-power among the masses.
 
The end game is “mass resistance” to the establishment. A man's resistance leads to a dead end.
 
The last time, I and many others were on the street with #FixTheCountry organizers to lend our “arms” of a collective voice to the mass resistance of the establishment.
 
There are no doubts in the masses about a clearly misguided leadership after their call for arms on the street. And this is where the group may have to fix itself and come again!

SaCut Denis Amenga-Etego