Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Can We Ever Like Our Cops?

Tell me - is there anything rarer in this land than a courteous traffic cop? (Not counting dollar transactions or the frequency of my blog posts). Recently, a cop 'arrested' my sister for jumping the "amber lights" at 10 pm. After apologies and a promise to be of good behaviour only made him angry, she resigned to going to the police station with him. Don't you think that should have pleased him? Well it didn't.

One hour later, he had failed to bully her to offer him a bribe of 400 Cedis. And he could no longer take her to the station because he couldn't explain why a 5-minute drive had taken an hour at traffic-less 10 pm. When passersby inched closer to smell what he was cooking up at the roadside at that time, he quickly crawled into a getaway hole.

The men in black
Are difficult to back.


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3 comments:

  1. There is a round near where I live and it (which is very close to the Kaneshie Police Station)
    It was recently turned into a one way road and the sign is placed in such a way it is easy to miss.
    Every evening, police stand around with AK47s and catch unsuspecting drivers and collect money.
    It's like hunting

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  2. There is a round near where I live and it (which is very close to the Kaneshie Police Station)
    It was recently turned into a one way road and the sign is placed in such a way it is easy to miss.
    Every evening, police stand around with AK47s and catch unsuspecting drivers and collect money.
    It's like hunting

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  3. Drivers are the paymasters of Policemen in Ghana. Traffic Police will use every means to extort money from you.

    It is that bad.

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