Residents of Rasta a community between the Teshie Military Academy and the Mars Barracks are living in fear due to constant attacks by armed robbers.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”FrmNboXn14qIQWD23vJeNqjkPu1c8PJ0″]On the average, the residents claim they are attacked twice a week and this has been going on since December 2014.<\/p>\n
The situation is making their lives unbearable, causing many of the residents to\u00a0abandon their homes to seek refuge elsewhere.<\/p>\n
John Antwi a resident at Rasta was a victim of one of such attacks and according to him, the armed robbers come almost every night wielding guns, machetes and other weapons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey often come in group, they are about five men. Three of them will enter while two stand around shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is really scary and you go to the police and they tell you they don\u2019t have cars, they don\u2019t have personnel, you just don\u2019t understand\u201d<\/p>\n
Maame Akua, another resident in the community tells Citi News<\/em><\/strong> they no longer know peace and is hoping that something urgent will be done soon.<\/p>\n \u201cAs soon as it turns 6pm then I start feeling sick because I know they [the Armed Robbers] will soon be coming. Three days ago I had to flee my house with my kids because we were afraid. The police has to help us because we are suffering\u201d \u2013 she said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile other residents expressed concern about the slow response of the police whenever these attacks are reported.<\/p>\n \u201cWe always call the Teshie Police but mysteriously they always wait till the robbery ends before they arrive. They needs to wake up because now Rasta is hell.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Residents of Rasta a community between the Teshie Military Academy and the Mars Barracks are living in fear due to constant attacks by armed robbers. [contextly_sidebar id=”FrmNboXn14qIQWD23vJeNqjkPu1c8PJ0″]On the average, the residents claim they are attacked twice a week and this has been going on since December 2014. The situation is making their lives unbearable, causing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":102460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-109017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}