Mr Jerry Ahmed Shaib, the Second Deputy Minority Whip and Member of Parliament for Weija-Gbawe on Wednesday expressed abhorrence about what he described as the 'weaponization' of institutions by the government.

"It's actually regressive and so alarming that almost every institution has been weaponized by the government of the day, what is happening to us. So can't we do

our multi-party democracy again", he questioned.

Mr Shaib expressed the concern when he spoke to the media after he joined hundreds of aggrieved supporters of the largest New Patriotic Party (NPP) in a

street protest in Sunyani, the Bono Regional capital on Wednesday.

Dubbed: "Yensuro Ahunahuna Demo", the protesters wore branded black or red "T' shirts, held placards with inscriptions like "No freedom of speech", "Pay workers their salaries", "Aboboyaa Aban" and "No freedom no peace", paraded through the principal streets of Sunyani, amid heavy police presence.

The street protest was to register the displeasure of the NPP on what the party described as "the government-sponsored attack on free speech and our democracy".

It followed the arrest and detention of Mr Abubakar Yakubu, popularly known as 'Baba Amando' and Mr Kwame Baffoe also known as "Abronye", the Sunyani

East Constituency Officer and the Bono Regional Chairman of the NPP respectively.

Mr Shaib said that: "If you phone in to an FM or TV station, the next thing is that they just track and arrest you and they started those arrests long ago".

"A Muslim and his caliber, people even have the effrontery to use the social media to portray that the former Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawuwia chews pork and takes alcohol.

CUE IN VIDEO-Mr Shaib

In another interview, Mr Yakubu regretted that over the past six months, the government had been using state machinery to intimidate the youth of the country, describing President John Dramani Mahama as one of the greatest beneficiaries of free speech.

CUE IN VIDEO-Mr Yakubu