Crime rates in Ghana seem to have risen in recent months following a spate of high-profile robberies across the country.
The CEO of the Institute of Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies, Dr, Ishmael Norman believes unemployment is the cause of the rise in crimes.
According to him, the general unfairness meted out to several Ghanaians has also resulted in the menace.
He explained that the youth want jobs to be able to feed themselves and their families, and the lack of it causes them to use other means.
“The situation of unemployment in the country, general unfairness and inequities in the country,” Dr. Norman said on TV3’s Key Points.
“I don’t think unresolved crimes have anything to do with why we are having an upsurge in crime, the youth want to be happy, you to have jobs.
“The youth want to have a lifestyle that other people who are well situated are having. They don’t see that and so they are revolting.”
This follows the recent murder of two police officers, one of whom was guarding a bullion van transporting cash.
Another bullion van narrowly escaped an attack by robbers at Gomoa Dominase in the Central Region last Thursday.
The suspected armed robbers, numbering about six, allegedly emerged from the bush and shot the window at the passenger side of the vehicle where the police security guard was sitting. The armed men, however, took to their heels after the failed attempt.
