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Watch Ghanaian trade Union on massive anti-tariff demonstration

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Channel: Pulse Ghana · 2016 · Entertainment

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With loud horns, united voices and biting placards, workers clad in red took to the streets of Accra over the “desperate social and economic conditions” recent tax, levy and utility hikes are causing.
 The Organised Labour demonstration began at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, on Monday, January 20,  went along Liberia Road, past the National Theatre and ended at Independence Square.
 The demonstration, estimated to be about 3,000 people, had many groups represented, including overall body Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), as well as the Judicial Service Workers Association of Ghana (JUSAG), the Cocoa Processing Company Ltd and the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) among others.
The action extended through the country with demonstrators taking to the streets in solidarity and to present petitions.
The nationwide protest was to register Organised Labour’s displeasure about the government’s refusal to reduce the increase in taxes that have heightened the prices of petroleum products and the cost of utility tariffs.
Since December, water bills have increased by 67.2 percent, power by 59.2 percent, and fuel by 27 percent.
Protesters peacefully waved their placards, danced to drums and chanted along the streets of Accra.
Placards urged President John Mahama to have compassion, others said “the worst form of violence is poverty”, as well as “spare us our future, politicians” and “we are suffering” ‘fix the economy and stop the blame game”.

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