Despite all the criticisms and bashings being meted out at the Police following the protest by residents of Adentan municipality, a private legal practitioner and law lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Clara Beeri Kasser-Tee has commended the Ghana Police Services for risking their lives to control the traffic on the stretch.


According her, the police did extremely well considering the fact that government’s neglect of the unfinished footbridge ‘forced’ pedestrians to resort to dangerous means to cross the highway.


“Do we know the capacity of our police, do we know the number of police on that stretch, and I have to add that it is unfair to put demand on other people” she said.

The legal practitioner added that, there seems to be a deficit in the presence of police on the Adenta-Madina highway to control traffic. “There are not enough police men on that stretch and the few there do their best even at the peril of their lives” she said.

The law lecturer who was trapped in the traffic as a result of the Thursday upheaval at the Adenta –Madina highway said she wouldn’t have blamed the aggrieved residents if they had attacked her “I was afraid, I did feel trapped but I would not have blamed them if they had attacked me, I could have been a victim of failed leadership” Madam Kasser-Tee recounted.


She added that she was disappointed at how things had turned especially with regards to how discussions on the issue had turned.

“There is a problem and the interim solution is just fix the footbridges, there may be other issues but at the moment fixing the footbridges should be our focus”. The legal practitioner was speaking on News File on JoyNews on Saturday.