Former National Security adviser Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah has asked government not to only focus on tackling crime from the security aspect but also from the socio-economic perspective of finding jobs for the youth on the street.
According to him, most of the youth are found on the street selling products that on a normal day individuals will not be happy to sell like dog chains among other funny things.
Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah believes the focus has always been on fighting crime from the security aspect leaving the socio-economic challenges leading both young men and women to engage in robbery.
Speaking in a radio interview after a daylight robbery on Tuesday February 27 at Royal Motors, a motorbike retail company in the North Industrial Area in Accra, Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah said the only way the police can fight this is to rely on good intelligence to fight crime because Accra is very big for them to be everywhere at every time.
Crime cases have been on the rise in recent times in some part of the capital Accra, most attacks have been on residence, mobile money vendors and even on Ghana Police Service.
Crime: Armed men attack Royal Motors in Accra
Armed robbers have stormed Royal Motors, a motorbike retail company in the North Industrial Area in Accra, Tuesday morning, and made away with a huge undisclosed amount of money and a vehicle.
Eyewitness reports indicate that about 4 of the robbers stormed the premises around 9:30 am on Tuesday, after following a van that had dropped off a cashier to collect the company's sales made the previous day.
According to a report from the staff, one of the robbers pretending to be a customer entered into the secretary's office under the pretext of negotiating the price of a motorbike.
Meanwhile, the other suspects attacked a security man in his cubicle, took his phones and beat him up.
Before the secretary and other staff realized, her potential customer-turned-actual-robber, threatened her as the other suspects wore masks and stormed the office.
The robbers fired multiple shots, destroyed glass windows and locked the secretary, security man, sales manager and other staff in one office, while they snatched about 8,000 cedis from the secretary's office.
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