{"id":405864,"date":"2018-03-03T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=405864"},"modified":"2018-03-03T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T18:03:14","slug":"dont-blame-robberies-on-unemployed-youth-dep-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/dont-blame-robberies-on-unemployed-youth-dep-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t blame unemployed youth for robberies – Dep. Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
Deputy Information Minister, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei has refuted the assertion from the Minority in Parliament that the government’s inability\u00a0to create jobs is responsible for the recent upsurge in robberies.<\/p>\n
Mrs.\u00a0Asiamah-Adjei argued that criminal tendencies were influenced more by upbringing and morality and than by desperation from joblessness.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”Wd5FZsYeOqnCdRlwJW1XTokK9Tx72fAg”]”How jobless could you be that it would push you to get into armed robbery?” she\u00a0questioned on Eyewitness News<\/strong> after the Minority stated that there was an inextricable link between jobless New Patriotic Party vigilante youth and the increase in robberies.<\/p>\n Observers have consistently warned that Ghana’s unemployment\u00a0problem posed a threat to national security.<\/p>\n