A Former National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah has attributed the increased crime rate in the country to the unemployment situation in the country.
He is predicting the situation could be out of hand if nothing is done to provide jobs for the teeming youth in the country.
“Nobody is safe if a police officer can be murdered at a police station. I’m terrified because the lawlessness is too much; those in charge must act now” he opined.
Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah made the comment while reacting to the brutal killing of a police officer at Kwabenya police station in Accra last Sunday.
Inspector Emmanuel Ashiley was yesterday shot by some gun men who attacked the Atomic Hill Police Station in Kwabenya to free seven persons from custody, one of them a Nigerian.
Inspector Ashilevi who was on a monitoring mission at the station was said to be taking cover in a broken down vehicle unarmed when he was shot by the attackers.
On Asempa FM Monday, Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah said he was convinced that the “lawlessness [in the country] could be minimized if government provides jobs.
He blamed successive governments for not doing enough to provide jobs for the youth, saying “the devil finds work for the idle hand”.
The former Chief of Defense Staff in the erstwhile Rawlings administration is therefore cautioning that the country could be under siege if nothing is done to provide employment.
Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah appealed to the Inspector General of Police to resource the police to enable them do effective work.
Source: adomonline.com
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we have criminals roaming on our streets and we are talking about employment. Ask those who were arrested whether there are carpenters, mechanics or lawyers. they do not have any employable skills so where would they fit? we should not justify crime in any way. the police at that place has been taken bribes to protect this criminals. who do you want them to kill apart from civilians?
I THINK ITS TIME THE CHILDREN OF THIS OLDMAN NUNUU MENSAH OR WHATEVER TO LEARN TO ***barred word*** IF HE HAS NOTING TO SAY. HE IS AMONG THOSE WHO MADE THE NDC GO TO OPPOSITION BECOUSE OF HIS LOOSE TALK THAT IF THE KITCHIN IS HOT WE SHOULD GET OUT OR LEAVE THE COUNTRY. LOOK AT WHAT HE IS SAYING TODAY. SOME ONE HAS BEEN SHOT IN LINE OF DUTY A BREAD WINNER OF HIS FAMILY AND YOU TALKING ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT. I DONT THINK EVEN IN THE UNITED STATES EVERYONE IS WORKING. THE YOUTH OF TODAY DO NOT WANT TO WORK SOME OF THEM ARE VERY LAZY YET THEY ALWAYS WANT CHEAP MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS. THE OTHER DAY I WAS DRIVING AND MY CAR WONT START. THERE WERE THIS YOUNG MEN SITTING THERE I CALLED THEM I NEEDED A PUSH NONE OF THEM RESPONDED. THERE WAS MY AGE GROUP MAN PASSING HE READYLY ASSISTED ME TO PUSH AND I OFFERED HIM 29 GHANA CEDIS WHILE THE LAZY BOYS SITTING THERE REGRETTING. WE SHOULD NOT SAY CRIME IS JUST UNEMPLOYMENT SO WE MUST JUSTIFY IT FOR THIS BAD ELEMENTS TO GET SWOOLEN HEADS AND CONTINUE TO COMMIT CRIME. THE OLDMAN SHOULD COME AGAIN.
Nana addo cannot create jobs. He is just as useeeless as Mahama. Shame on him. Ghanaians must look to a new and better person to lead them. Forget about these NDC/NPP fooooooooooools who have wasted our time and money since 1992
nana addo created only 110 jobs and he doesn't know how many more bcos he has staffed his ministeries with incompetent ppl - just like Mahama did. If he was a serious leader, he will hv ministers who can produce efficiency and produce jobs in the various sectors. Do u think if a serious person was president, we wld not have seem increasing employment after 1 year? Nana Addo is just as incompetent as Mahama