The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen has said that the free SHS policy bis his party will put a stop to armed robbery in the country.
Nana Obri Boahen in an interview on Nhyira FM said; “With the free Senior High School, if implemented for at least about four or five years, and proceed to the implementation of Free Tertiary, in the next ten or fifteen years if we still have free SHS and Free Tertiary, armed robbery cases will reduce”.
According to the legal practitioner, research has showed educated people are not likely to engage themselves in robbery or murder.
“In a research we conducted as a minister of state at the Interior Ministry at the Nsawam Prisons, people who were jailed for murder cases and high crime cases, most of them had low or no level of education” Nana Obri Boahen told Nana Kwadwo Jantuah the host of the shows.
“It would be very difficult not to say it can’t happen; that a university product will attack someone with a knife to snatch a mobile phone. It doesn’t happen likely,” he added.
His comments come after the MP for Mfantsemen West Mr. Ekow Quansah Hayford was shot to death in a highway robbery.
Source: Gossips24.com
