Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Youth Authority and a member of the Communication Team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Akosua Manu, has expressed her objection to the term 'hooligans' used to describe the participants in the #OccupyBoG protest.

This term, employed by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, does not align with her perspective, and she contends that it is an inappropriate characterization of the protesters.

In response to an undelivered petition submitted by the organizers of the demonstration, which aimed to compel the head of the central bank and his two deputies to step down, Dr. Addison made it clear that he had no intentions of acceding to their demands.

In his response, the Governor of the BoG called the protesters ‘hooligans.’

“The Minority in parliament have many channels to channel their grievances in civilised societies, not through demonstrations in the streets as hooligans,” he is reported to have said in an interview with the international business website, Central Banking.

“Hold institutions accountable but make sure that the things you want to hold them accountable to are things within their remit... I, for instance, am surprised that the governor, as CEO, also doubles as chair of the board. That’s not good corporate governance; it’s not

“… but at the end of the day, I disagree with the word ‘hooligans’ ascribed to the protesters.

"He didn’t do well; he didn’t do well on that score and I’ll take no precedence on that and nobody can convince me that those were the appropriate words to use,” she said.