The recent daylight robbery of a jewelry store in Adabraka has raised significant concerns about Ghana’s security infrastructure.

According to a member of Parliament’s Defense and Home Affairs Committee, Peter Lanchene Toobu, the incident, in which over six million cedis were stolen, reveals a failure in the country’s security response capacity.

“What happened in Adabraka in broad daylight it’s an embarrassment to our entire security architecture. It is an embarrassment and a failure for us to bring our citizens to a level where they would be security conscious,” he said in an interview at JoyNewsMonday, November 4th AM show.

The robbery involved four masked gunmen who fired to disperse the crowd before looting large bags of cash from a parked Toyota Corolla.

Despite the daylight and public location, there was no immediate intervention, which Mr Toobu sees as a critical lapse in police vigilance.

He criticized both the police and the business owner, saying better security could have prevented the robbery.

He stressed that the event was a wake-up call, showing that citizens need to be more security conscious and proactive.

Mr Toobu questioned the jewelry store owner’s security measures, noting that businesses handling large volumes of cash should consider police escorts.

He pointed out that the Ghana Police Service could provide such services on demand, especially for high-risk businesses, adding that responsibility for personal security starts with business owners.

“Your personal security is your responsibility, when we talk about security at another level, people are trained and have the expertise to give you service, Ghana police should give him a service and that opportunity to be served. it depends how you open up.

“Armed robbers are attracted to cash and motivated by money, so when you generate cash in your business, you should know that this is a magnet for robbery. If you know that, what would you do to make yourself safe?” he asked.

Supporting this view, forensic scientist Dr. Jones Opoku Ware of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology advocated for increased police patrols in high-risk commercial areas such as Adabraka.

He noted that crimes of this nature often involve insider knowledge, stressing the need for owners to minimize cash holdings on premises to deter such robberies.

“I’ve said this time and time again because the fact that you operate these kinds of businesses that attract this huge amount of money would require you not to keep this huge amount of money with you because these kinds of crimes are almost inside jobs.”

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