Another interesting aspect of Accra, Ghana, it is how the law of the land is implemented by those in power. “Who made the Gt. Accra minister a judge to pick and punish people on the spot?” Samson Anyenini asked. Reading it all over the Web and on the Website of News Summed Up, I was not surprised one bit.
"It doesn't matter that there is a law that says when someone doesn't use a footbridge, this is how to deal with them. "So, the Accra minister, doing a very good job, goes around, gets a few people, they stand around Madina Zongo [Junction], with canes, with whips, to whip who? He also wondered how it is that the people who enforce these directives, under the instruction and supervision of the regional minister, Henry Quartey, thought it prudent to exact such gravities of punishments of people, including very elderly people. And who made the regional minister a judge and a police to pick people and punish them instantly? You have been clapping for him, that's fine because you refuse to think that it could be you and that the law doesn't allow it," he fumed." www.newssummedup.com
Partly, it is because there is no good judicial system in place to enforce the laws and protect the offenders. This is what I would like to call “disgracing citizens of Accra in public. “This is a very big social problem in Accra, Ghana and Africa. What is the best solution for solving this social problem?