We were just going on about how we were being ditched by one of our friends and how we felt bad about the whole situation, well this is just for a short period of time since after all we had less than three weeks till we wouldn't see each other again.
We laughed a little, talked a little and tried to focus on the bright future ahead until we ere asked to 'park' by a police team sitting in a pickup truck.
Oh my! It was late and we were already in such a hurry to go home how can this happen? We obliged anyway. After a few minutes where we decided we would not step out of the vehicle, Two police men came down and asked Alice to bring out the documents supporting her driving a car with a foreign number plate in the country. Everything of hers was exact and inwardly we all jeered at the men, however, we knew our woes were not over. Someway, they had stopped us and couldn't let us go free. They had to find a fault. After some time, the 'fault' came out to be that one document supporting the vehicle was in the name of her husband and not hers after explaining to them the truth and nothing but the truth, ...... well it wasn't our fault they spoke very bad English, and were terrible in understanding it too. We were ordered to the station.
The most annoying factor associated with this was that, we were stopped in Adenta, beside a police station and asked to drive to the Madina police station. that was quite a distance. We obliged, drove solemnly while thinking of our next plan of action.
These men really wasted our time.... after buying food on the way, to parking without saying a word. Finally we were at the station by which time we had made the first important call on Alice contact list. The simple issue now progressed to us leaving our car and being processed for court. We agreed to the latter part of that statement that meant being taken to court on that issue.
After a few more calls, and speaking to the bosses, the police man with our details had to release them for us because 'a boss' said so!!!
Bottom line we were so happy on our way back home. It pays to know people in high if you are a Ghanaian otherwise your life will be frustrated by the police of this country.
