Parliament orders test into furnished armed robbery on MoMo sellers

 

Parliament has entrusted its Defense and Interior Committee to research the flood in theft assaults on versatile cash sellers in the country. 

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Andrew Asiamah Amoako on Friday gave the order following concerns raised by the MPs for Ablekuma South and Dormaa East, Dr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije and Paul Apreku Twum-Barimah separately. 

The Committee is required to present its discoveries and its proposals to the House in three weeks. 

Tending to the House, Dr Okoe Vanderpuije, noticed that beside versatile cash extortion, information on theft assaults on portable merchants are accounted for consistently. 

"Just put Mr. Speaker, working versatile cash administrations is presently an exceptionally hazardous business," he added. 

He likewise unveiled that reports from the representative of the Association of Mobile Money Vendors, Mr Charles Kwesi Addo, uncovered that their individuals live in steady dread of being looted or killed. Consequently, his approach the House to make quick moves to cure the issue. 

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"This danger to the existences of sellers should be tended to as quickly as time permits. These assailants are assaulting lives, occupations, and a significant assistance inside our dear country, Ghana," he expressed. 

Paul Apreku Twum-Barimah, who additionally voiced his interests clarified that such an industry should be secured attributable to its commitment to the economy. 

As per him, information from the Bank of Ghana expressed that more than 100,000 positions have been made because of the activity of versatile cash administrations. 

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"Versatile cash has become a method of supporting a great deal of families in our country. For sure, as indicated by the Bank of Ghana reports, it examined the effect of versatile cash in our country between 2015-16, the portable cash industry offered more than 500 million to our economy. 

"It likewise expressed that the business has utilized more than 100, 000 individuals. Obviously, showing that it is an industry that we need to watch out for. It is an industry we need to help inside and out. Accordingly, battle these lawbreakers that are attempting to cut down a particularly significant industry," he expressed. 

On April 20, outfitted looters assaulted a versatile cash and an electrical shop at Kasoa Opeikuma in a sunlight mission. 

Two suspects were said to have first entered the portable cash shop on the appearance of pulling out cash just to undermine the merchant with a firearm. 

A 40-year-elderly person was shot and killed by looters in a similar area in the wake of pulling out cash from a bank, as of late. 

Around the same time, separate theft episodes on two versatile cash merchants were recorded in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis. 

The episodes left the people in question, Joseph Ansah, 21, and John Kofi Abekah, 41, hospitalized at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital over gunfire wounds.