According to a recent Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) study, crime rates in Ghana have risen significantly this year.
When comparing the first half of 2020 to the first half of 2021, there has been a rise in violent crimes, as as the number of fatalities as a result of these crimes.
The instruments that individuals use to perpetrate crimes are of particular importance.
“If you compare the first half of this year and the first half of last year, firearms have gone up by 79% and machete and knife being used in violent crimes has also gone up significantly, so it is something we need to focus attention on which is gun control.”
These were revealed by Nana Yaw Akwadaa, Executive Secretary of the Bureau of Public Safety, during the Sunrise morning program on 3FM with Alfred Ocansey.
The revelation follows a slew of offenses perpetrated in the previous two weeks.
The suspected murder of a pastor and his wife in Ayitikope in the Volta Region’s Akatsi South Municipality is of special concern.
In his version of the event, the Assemblyman for the region, Dery Agbo, who is also a close cousin of the dead, said that the couple’s decomposing corpses were discovered in their chamber.
Another instance included Mohammed Adama Sukparu, the Member of Parliament for the Sissala West Constituency in the Upper West Region, who was assaulted by armed men on his way back from a funeral. He and the passengers of his car, on the other hand, were unhurt.
According to the Bureau of Public Safety, the majority of crimes reported, including murders and manslaughters, occurred outside the victims’ houses.
“And so it is important that we have these closed-circuit televisions and so we should deploy them and occasionally remove footage from them and appropriate the cameras very well to be able to pick up human traffics and isolate the people,” he stressed.
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SOURCE: ATLFM ONLINE
