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I was driving on the Central Ringroad near the �Bus Stop� when I heard the sirens blarring loudly and I stopped to make way for the big person who could not be held up in the suffocating traffic of Accra. It turned out to be the Inspector-General of Police who was being driven to his office less than two Kilometres away. I asked myself if the Interior Minister happened to be using the same road at the same time, who would stop for who? This is because in terms of hierarchy, the Inspector-General of Police is below the rank of the Minister of Interior. In the Kufuor era, I also encountered the spectacle of Honourable Albert Kan Dapaah, then Minster of Defence being driven to Peace FM for an interview with sirens blarring. At that time, I couldn�t help wondering what would have happened if the Supreme Commander of the Ghana Armed Forces happened to be using the same road and at the same time? The worse case was just about three days ago when I encountered a black Toyota Landcruiser with two kids wearing their school uniforms. They had a police out rider in front of them blarring his siren and clearing the traffic for them to reach their school in time. This is not the end of the story. At another time, I came across the wife of a prominent businessman with a lot of clout in the ruling party. She was on her way to the market and a police outrider was blarring ahead of her vehicle. These days everywhere you go, you come across four wheel drives with tainted windows. Some of them have sirens affixed to their roots or they have police outriders blarring in front of them. The facility which is usually reserved for the Head of State and his Vice, visiting very important delegations, and sometimes, the Speaker of Parliament is now freely available to Priests, business people, school children and many other strange categories. So who is entitled to drive around with police outriders blarring in front of them? Who will stop the chaos on our roads? The insight