Sunday 1:00 p.m. This is the site that met the MD and his photographer as they were returning to the Daily Observer offices from a news-gathering assignment. Luckily, their camera was ready and they took photographs of this situation.

A group of cleaners with UNDP vehicles were arguing in the middle of the road with a soldier (the green pick-up) who was in a hurry to go to work at Bakau Barracks.

The MD and his photographer were also in a hurry to go and put together today’s paper. The MD, as an Old Pa, got out of the car to ask the cleaners to let the traffic pass as it was absolutely unnecessary to close the road. As our photos show, the Big Man would have none of it.

“Mind your own business, go back to your country! I know where you live!”, he shouted at the MD as the Daily Observer started taking photographs.

Questions for the IGP.

The Daily Observer would respectfully wish to ask if it is lawful for anyone to close a public highway without permission from the authorities.

Earlier that morning, we had passed youths (it was a football team) closing the road, while marching to beg. They were stopping traffic on the highway. We also regularly see wedding parties in convoys driving madly on the highway and closing the road. Others, civilians in a hurry, put on their hazard lights as if they were in the president’s convoy and cause havoc with traffic.

Respectully, IGP, the law needs to be enforced starting with these photographed group. Our photos are available to your officers on request.