Ashaiman demonstration is the language gov’t understands – CPP

Deputy Communications Director of the Convention People's Party (CPP), has said the swift response to the demand for better roads by rioting Ashaiman drivers, proves that such occurrences is a language government understands.

Police arrested eleven people on Monday when irate youth in Ashaiman, protested against the bad nature of roads and lack of street lights in the area.

The rioting youth took over the tollbooths on the motorway and looted money and other property.

The youth wing of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) issued a message of congratulations to the people of Ashiaman - especially those who took part in the rioting.

Ernesto Yeboah, the Deputy Communications Director, said despite the riots it would be "irresponsible" to criticize the action by the residents, without putting the riots in a proper context.

He said over the tenures of Presidents Rawlings, Kufuor, Mills and Mahama, the people of Ashaiman have had to suffer “deprivation and pain for close to 31 years”.

He said within the context of achieving results, their strategy worked because as late as 1am Tuesday, graders were sent there to repair the roads.

“If it brings results, then probably that is the language political leaders understand”, he noted.

He said that it took ordinary people in Ashaiman to insist on their share of development while "intellectuals would have kept quiet and follow the rules”.