President Akufo-Addo will hold a meeting with security chiefs in the country, Monday, following an increase in robbery incidents and killings over the past week.
Nana Akufo-Addo who left Ghana for a 10-day visit to Togo, the United States of America, and Germany on February 23, 2018, and was scheduled to return on Monday but cut short his trip over the rising spate of robberies in the country.
He returned on Saturday, March 3, 2018, and is expected to query the Interior Minister and the IGP on the state of the country’s security.
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia held a similar meeting with security heads last week during the increase in armed robbery cases.
Minister of State in charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong, recently disclosed that over 200 robbery cases have been recorded since January 2018.
He, however, assured the public that the government is committed to ensuring that the Police Service is resourced enough to tackle the increase in criminal activities across the country.
“Going forward from March to the end of the year, at least we would experience a sharp drop in armed robbery cases. We would not be experiencing these incidents. I am just trying to explain that the government has control. Currently, the Police Service has control.We are going to put in enough resources to sustain it, which will fit nicely into our general security plans for the year to drop the crime rate from 200,000 to under 150,000, so we have control of the situation,†he said in a radio interview.
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