This distortion of priorities is in abundance across Africa. We are obsessed with exporting oil while our citizens are queuing for it. We make plans to export food even while our citizens are starving. We build presidential palaces while the masses lack basic housing and we buy Presidential jets and luxury vehicles for dignitaries even while we lack public transport systems.

So far, so very good. That would have been my verdict if I was asked to give an assessment of the recent visible presence of the police at some vantage points in the city of Accra.