The One Cedi Policing In Ghana

Richard Obeng Mensah

Corruption is a mocker

Corruption is rude

Corruption steals, kills and destroys

Corruption usually uses established state institutions such as the Police Service to execute its vicious devices

Corruption usually uses money to achieve its goals

It uses money to weaken the strength of an established system

Corruption uses money to silence some eminent officials such as the police

It uses money to reduce the value of some police officers to bread

Corruption uses money to make some police officers forget their vital role

The primary role of the Ghana Police Service is to protect life and property

The service is for instance mandated to enforce road traffic regulations

Enforcing road traffic regulations secure life and property of the populace

Corruption is, however, silently making nonsense of this vital role

Corruption is using money to buy the loyalty and integrity of some police officers

Some police officers on the highways have giving in to corrupt tendencies

The value of some police officers patrolling the roads has been reduced to

just One Ghana Cedi

Road traffic offenders have learnt this language of corruption

Road traffic offenders know that once they are able to give One Ghana Cedi

to some police officers on the road their offences would be ignored

Life and property are being sacrificed for just One Ghana Cedi!