{"id":395917,"date":"2018-01-28T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=395917"},"modified":"2018-01-28T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:27:45","slug":"dont-politicize-escalating-insecurity-mp-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/dont-politicize-escalating-insecurity-mp-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t politicize escalating insecurity – MP warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon,\u00a0Emmanuel\u00a0Kyeremanteng\u00a0Agyarko, has cautioned against painting the recent high profile incidents of criminal activity with political colours.<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong>, the legislator said the more pressing concern was to ensure the police were properly resourced to match up to the now-better equipped criminals.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”AkPNC1ncezqkksjG3doYmvkcmIFVDvFe”]”I don\u2019t want us to politicize the matter. This country has not fallen into a dark hole in the last one year. We have had periods of insecurity over a long period. It is getting worse and we must find the wherewithal to confront it,”\u00a0Mr. Agyarko<\/p>\n On the same show, the MP for Wa Central, Rashid Pelpuo had remarked that there was general insecurity in the country and that Ghanaians were becoming terrified.<\/p>\n Their comments follow a recent raid on the Kwabenya District Police Headquarters which led to the killing of a police officer <\/a><\/strong>on duty and the freeing of seven persons who were on remand.<\/p>\n In 2017, there were also a couple of similar raids on police stations along with other incidents where police were slain by assailants while on duty. including the\u00a0killing of a police officer at\u00a0Lapaz<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0during a robbery in July 2017.<\/p>\n But Mr. Agyarko said there was no cause to blame such incidents on the Akufo-Addo administration because high profile crime had been occurring\u00a0beyond the past year, notably the murder of the\u00a0late MP for Abuakwa North, J.B. Danquah-Adu at his home in 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t create a certain impression that in the last one year or so, the security situation in this country has deteriorated and it has never been seen before. It is absolutely not true. I don\u2019t think that the limited police statistics we have bare out that fact.\u201d<\/p>\n “We are not funding our security agencies enough to even catch up with them. Indeed, they must not only lay catch up, they must be ahead of them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Lip service from government<\/strong><\/p>\n Also speaking on,\u00a0\u00a0The Big Issue\u00a0<\/strong>Imani Africa President, Franklin Cudjoe, has noted the mere lip service\u00a0from\u00a0politicians as\u00a0one the reasons\u00a0Ghana the Ghana Police Service is in a “decrepit” state.<\/p>\n Franklin Cudjoe said the Service was in need of serious help if they were to execute their mandate and protect citizens.<\/p>\n