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| NANA DOKUA - INFORMATION MINISTER |
Deputy Information Minister, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei has refuted the assertion from the Minority in Parliament that the government's inability to create jobs is responsible for the recent upsurge in robberies.
Vice President Dr. Bawumia admitted the current unemployment levels were a "national security issue", stating at the 69th Annual New Year School and Conference at the University of Ghana that "it is a national security issue because the devil finds work for idle hands."
A security analyst, Professor Vladmir Antwi Danso recently noted to Citi News that "if there is the chance for indulging in anything unconstitutional they [unemplyed people] will do it because they have to survive and that is how you look at it when security is concerned."
Though Mrs. Asiamah-Adjei admitted that there were currently not enough jobs to absorb all the unemployed youth, she insisted that no amount of desperation could push one to robbery.
"Day after day, there are new policies and directives which give different opportunities to other people but if you are not born a thief, I don't know what kind of hunger that will push you to get into armed robbery.
