Adentan-Madina Police Arrests: Look Like Rwanda But Don’t Adopt Its Style Of Leadership
The road though had some footbridges, their conditions did not allow them to be used because they were yet to be finished.
Tires were burnt, the government was lampooned, the administration was said to have been derelict in its duty in safeguarding the lives of the citizenry.
Some civil society organizations jumped on the bandwagon and chanted their usual Rwandan mantra being a paragon of virtue in terms of keeping its people safe and expanding infrastructure.
The government had to find the money to undertake the project. The footbridges were built and the people who were dying crossing the roads have refused to use the footbridges. They are still crossing the roads with their attendant dangers.
The demonstrators have been silent. Those who took to street protests have not said anything. They are probably too busy doing their own things than urging the people to use the footbridges.
These lovers of Rwanda have been asleep while the police and other agencies have been urging pedestrians to use the footbridges. Even in
COVID-19, the footbridges have been abandoned by the pedestrians.
This Easter season, the police have been high-handed in dealing with those who flout the laws at Adentan and Madina regarding the usage of the footbridges. Some are being made to clean the streets and all manner of things.
Ghanaians, let me say some Ghanaians say the police are breaking the law for subjecting those flouting the laws to some punishments.
They say the police have no right to do what it has done to keep sanity on the roads.
The police, they say, can only arrest these people and arraign them before the court. Where do we go from here? The streets are really sane now.
The method may have been unconventional, but the footbridges are being used.
It is a straight fight between saving lives using ‘unlawful’ means and jeopardizing lives using the law. I ask again, where do we go from here? How do we deal with this matter?
Ghana should be as clean as Rwanda, but it must not adopt Rwanda’s methods to achieve its success!
P.K. Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.
