This weekend we traveled to Cape Coast, a 4 hour drive from Accra. What should have been an uneventful drive up, turned in to a rather chaotic one. We arrived at a police barricade an hour into our drive. We were signaled to pull over to the side of the road by a police officer totting a rather large gun. When we pulled over one of the Ghanaian passengers in the car, Kojo, told us to drive off. 10 minutes later a taxi carrying the same two police officers drove up beside us and told us to stop. When we did one of the police officers pulled out his handcuffs and motioned to arrest the driver of the car, Zoli, a Hungarian native who had no idea what was going on. Kojo, Paul, and Zoli then
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