{"id":469284,"date":"2018-03-02T22:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/nana-addo-summons-igp-interior-minister-over-bloody-cases-of-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:55:29","slug":"nana-addo-summons-igp-interior-minister-over-bloody-cases-of-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/nana-addo-summons-igp-interior-minister-over-bloody-cases-of-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo summons IGP, Interior Minister over bloody cases of armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  2 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>yen.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/55617366.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nana Addo Suit\" title=\"Nana Addo Suit\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520031329_232_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Akufo-Addo has cut short his 10-day trip to Germany, USA, and India following the troubling trend of insecurity in the country. <\/p>\n<p>YEN.com.gh has received a letter from the presidency which reveals that Nana Addo has summoned both the Minister of Interior and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over the issue. <\/p>\n<p>What this means is that the president, instead of returning to Ghana on March 5, will now be touching down at the Kotoka Airport on March 1. <\/p>\n<p>So far, it remains unclear the discussion that would be had between both officials and the president but YEN.com.gh is gathering the closed-door meeting will be about how to stop the trend from happening and whether or not a military deployment will help complement the efforts of the police.<\/p>\n<p>Checks by YEN.com.gh show that Ghana recorded close to 80 cases of armed in January 2018 alone as compared to 60 cases in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Armed robbery cases have been on the rise with a daylight robbery incident happening at an automobile company is one of the instances. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a Lebanese man was shot dead shortly after he went to withdraw cash from Zenith Bank. An eyewitness narrated that the deceased&#8217;s car was blocked by the armed gang who then shot him and bolted with an amount believed to be 200,000 cedis. <\/p>\n<p>Although investigations into the robbery are underway as the police mount a man-hunt for all four armed robbers, some eyewitnesses who spoke on Joy FM claim that these robbers may have been tipped off by a worker of the company in which the Lebanese works. <\/p>\n<p>Records by the Ghana Police Service reveal that the ratio of security officials to civilians currently stands at 1 policeman to 500 Ghanaians. <\/p>\n<p>This troubling reality falls in sharp contrast with the success stories of various African countries who have a satisfactory of police per civilian ratio. <\/p>\n<p>In Kenya for example, the police to population, according to africacheck.org stands at 1 police officer to 448 civilians while in Nigeria (the most populated country in Africa), the police to civilian population stands at 370,000 to about 170 million Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 2 March 2018 Source: yen.com.gh 2018-03-02 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Akufo-Addo has cut short his 10-day trip to Germany, USA, and India following the troubling trend of insecurity in the country. 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