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CAUSES OF CRIME ROOT IN MOST LOCALITY.
Day in, day out on the data, there are all sorts of reports. Crime opinions are a predominant vicinity of modern-day events. Almost each and every day there are posts about crimes.
The charge at which people commit crime has risen immensely in each and every nook of the world. People have tried to apprehend the elements of crime, then as unexpectedly as extended if we exhibit off up spherical the world , we can see that many of the crimes are precipitated with the aid of the use of accepted typical performance of the utilization of way the use of manageable of human beings who abuse pills and alcohol, politics , and poverty.
Poverty is one of the indispensable reasons for crime. Countries with excessive costs of monetary deprivation have a tendency to witness increased crime costs than distinct countries. Since people do not have the functionality to tightly closed a dwelling in the suitable ways, they invest their time in crook things to do questioning about the reality that they are no longer totally an handy manageable to get what they decide for then again additionally do now no longer require any distinct prerequisite talents.
The ever-increasing divide we are witnessing between the prosperous and the bad can also be attributed to larger and increased of the terrible searching to crime as a capability for living. Not being capable to earn and hold themselves leaves human beings so aggravated that they resort to illegal plausible to preserve themselves and their families.
Drugs have continuously been notably criticized via critics. A man or woman who is addicted to drug will at one thing in time do some concern he/she isn’t supposed to do. Drug addicts are in many instances unable to get rid of dependency as a grant up supply up stop result of which their existence starts off evolved getting stuffed with horrible habits. A horrible way of existence compels a person to undertake habits which he/she distance themselves from. After research, when the most violent criminals had been requested about their crimes, they blamed tablets as the primary reason. Drug dependency is some splendid rampantly developing sickness which has slowly encapsulated many elements of the world.
Another root purpose to crime is politics. This hassle is many instances brushed beneath the carpet then once more is integral to deliver it in the spotlight. The stress to get that seat is what swings many politicians to equip the youths with weapons and characteristic criminal activities. In this day and age, it is acquainted for politicians to appoint mobs and hire human beings at reduce costs to harm into a putting up or commence a war-like united states of affairs indoors the country.
Politics have commonly been the assignment of severe media scrutiny, and the truth be told, it is regularly the mother of all the troubles in international areas which haven’t stabilized. In developing worldwide places it is popular for politicians to kill human beings and to be determined responsible of murder. There have been pretty a few conditions in many worldwide areas the area politicians had been decided responsible of having killed their human beings in masses.
The causes of crime are complex. Poverty, politics, alcohol and drug abuse can be associated to why human beings smash the law. Some are at huge hazard of turning into offenders due to the fact of the situations into which they are born.
In my conclusion, I will say it is quintessential to proceed to be away from crime. The world is truly blind in setting apart needs from desires. Even if you have much less money for survival, you have to be delighted with it as a desire of inclined to contour yourself in the pool of crime. And then once more government create sufficient jobs in other decrease the price of unemployment main to poverty which is swallowing human beings these days which is also a essential root motive to crime.
BY BOATENG HANNAH KONADU
THE typical itinerant salesman in Sikaman is a herbalist. He is normally a slim macho with the capacity to perambulate the expanse of area covering the triangle of Accra-Tema-Ashiaman. In short, he can walk a total of 60 miles a day, marketing a product that cures every disease, including poverty. 
The door-to-door herbal pharmacist advertises his product by word of mouth. He has nothing to do with the Food and Drugs Board (FDB). After all, his concoctions do not feature on FM stations.
Those herbalists who cannot walk to propagate the herbal gospel, liaise with drivers of mass transportation and their mates. They are, therefore, given the chance to sell their products on Benz buses that ply the routes.
Normally, the herbalist starts his sales message with a prayer and Bible study. He asks the passengers to bow down their heads in supplication to God the father, the son, the Holy Spirit.
When a herbalist asks the passengers to close their eyes and bow their heads, Moslems on board naturally feel offended. They feel that the herbalist has no right to assume that every passenger is a Christian. They think such an assumption is an affront to Islam.
So a Moslem on board will raise the hand for a point of order. He’ll remind the herbalist that it would be in his own interest to mind his language.
“Be careful the way you address people in a public place. Not every person here is a Christian,” he’d state assertively.
Of course, the herbalist will promptly ignore him, but would all the same “watch” his tongue. Who knows whether or not the Moslem brother is inspired by Quoranic zeal to defend the tenets of Islam to the hilt?
When he starts saying, “Wallahi!” and “Inshallah!” it could be the beginning of proclaiming Islam as supreme, a point which must be driven home with talibanic precision.
So the herbalist must tread carefully lest he steps on fire.
The herbalist could even add a measure of mirth to it all, by announcing that Christians on board today have very interesting company on the journey, but that should not detract from the business of the day.
The Moslem brother will weigh the words carefully and offer a wry smile.
He must be careful the occasion does not degenerate into the use of semantics and proverbial oration to deride his conviction that public utterances must be mindful of religious sensibilities. He has made his point very clear and expects that it is taken in good faith in the interest of a peaceful journey.
The herbalist will now open the New Testament and preach salvation, stating clearly that salvation can come only through Jesus Christ and NOBODY else.
The Moslem brother will now start twitching his moustache. The visible and almost revolutionary reflexes of his upper lip can be an indication that sentiments have begun superseding reason, and the outcome could well be tragic now shift uneasily in his seat.
The time has come for him to also express his right to the religion of his fore-bears. He’ll put his hand into his pocket and rise to his feet. The time has indeed come!
This article was first published on Saturday, September 9, 2006
When the cause of a particular problem like sickness, disease, sudden illness, a social issue etc. are not known, it stands to reason that resolving it becomes a huge challenge.
Citizens would understand the government when public announcements are made to the effect that government is trying to find a solution to the issue, even though it is taking a while for it to be resolved because citizens are rational beings.
On the other hand, if the solution to a particular issue is known to everybody but the government for whatever reason, is dragging its feet in resolving it, citizens become frustrated and begin to lose trust in their leaders.
One such issue is the heavy traffic along a section of the Kasoa – Odokor road. A short stretch of bad road between the traffic light at the Weija Government Hospital and the entrance to the entrance of the overhead that leads to the N1, is the cause of the problem but nothing is being done about it, day after day, week after week, month after month. Thus is clearly unacceptable.
Another issue that requires urgent attention is the lack of pavements along a lot of streets in parts of the various Municipal Assemblies. Exercise is a prerequisite for long life and healthy living and for those of us who it has become a way of life, this issue of people putting up structures right to the edge of the drains beside the roads, are making life difficult for us.
We are compelled to walk along the roads, putting our lives at serious risk. Pedestrians should never be compelled to compete with vehicles on our streets and roads. Roads and streets are made for vehicles and pavements are made for pedestrians. That is the norm. Any attempt to normalise a situation where pedestrians are mingling with vehicles is insanity.
It is the road regulations that makes it so and therefore district or municipal assemblies are to take responsibility and ensure that spaces for pavements are not encroached upon. Citizens have rights that must be protected by their leaders and making pavements available to pedestrians, is one of them.
When we hear of teachers having sex with students, it appears it is something recent. It is not a new phenomenon. It has been there since Adam. Perhaps this issue is getting much attention due to the proliferation of social media. It was an open secret in times past when Teachers were in relationships with female students and some married them immediately after completion of school.
Some teachers were also known to be having unholy interactions with female pupils but due to the times that these acts occurred, human rights issues and the awareness around it, allowed such unscrupulous teachers to get away with their crimes.
Now we are in a different era and so a Headmaster is now in hot waters. He is alleged to have raped about 19 female students and as usual, some officials tried to cover it up and are also in hot waters and their actions or inactions in the matter are under investigation.
Why the man has been allowed to roam freely without being arrested is simply mind boggling. It appears that the law applies differently, depending on who you are. This issue came to public attention sometime in August this year, yet the police had not arrested or invited this man for question regarding the rape allegation.
It has come out that he is a Constituency Secretary of the ruling party and the question in the public domain is that, is it because he is a political figure that is why he is still walking around without questioning? I believe in the rule of law so let us hold our breadth and let the proper thing be done.
The police must however be seen to be active in this matter. God bless.
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