Hotels and Guest houses in Kwahu-Bepong and Mpraeso in the Eastern Region are being terrorized by a gang of robbers operating in the area.
Information gathered indicates that, the robbers strike mostly whenever there are occasions and events such as funerals and social gatherings when people patronize hostel facilities.
Several hotels in the area have fell victim to the operations of the robbery syndicates who take away monies of the hotels and valuables of their guests.
The phenomenon has become nuisance to the hoteliers as police in the area seem to be effortless in dealing with the menace due to inadequate staff and vehicles to patrol.
Akanzabe Chrysanthus, a Manager in one of the affected Hotels in Kwahu-Bepong told Ultimate News, the insecurity environment which they operate is affecting the hotel business.
“For sometime now, armed robbers have been disturbing us, anytime we have guests mostly during funerals, and other occasions then they come in to loot phones and other personal belongings of our guests so it has been going on for sometime now, they have come to my place three or four times, there is another one, Spendilove, they went there on several occasions,” he said.
He said most of the hostels do not have the financial capacity to employ professionally trained security personnel therefore depend on private security but lack the ability to curb the menace.
Some hotels have been compelled to form vigilante groups who patrol their hotel environment whenever there is occasion.
The robbery gang is reported to have ransacked Kwahu Bepong Apostolic Church taken away church instruments and other valuables.
Police have however made effort to arrest some suspected gang members including JHS pupils.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/Kojo Ansah
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Hotels and Guest houses in Kwahu-Bepong and Mpraeso in the Eastern Region are being terrorized by a gang of robbers operating in the area. Information gathered indicates that, the robbers strike mostly whenever there are occasions and events such as funerals and social gatherings when people patronize hostel facilities. Several hotels in the area have […]
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