Musician and activist Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A Plus has fumed at the Ghana Police Service for extorting money from drivers at a barrier they mount at Spintex, in Accra.
According to him, that act causes lots of traffic and it wouldn’t be a problem if it was for a worthy cause like checking for arms in car boots.
See his full post on Facebook:
Ghana police will erect a barrier on the Spintex road, cause traffic from Coca-Cola roundabout to Manet junction only to tell drivers, “Your boys are here ooo.” And stupid questions like, “where are you from?” “Where are you going to.” “Something for the boys?” While the real robbers will be on our highways killing MPs and civilians. If you have caused that traffic because you are opening car boots and checking for arms etc that ok. But to use police uniform to block the road and beg for money for mosquito coil is pure nonsense!!! There are so many noble police officers in the service today. Those who don’t respect themselves must be removed. And those of you who take MoMo, take people to ATM machines to withdraw cash for you – a friends even said a police officer divided his bread into two and took half becausehe was driving without his licence. Be careful. I like the police who do snap checks at unsuspecting places. They are doing a great job. Not police who have been at one place for 15 years. If you erect a barrier on a particular road for 15 years and the same police stand there every other night which criminal will use that road? Won’t the criminals even make friends with the police? This country nankasa…. I don’t know how we think. And Hey!!! Don’t be there thinking
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