THE nefarious activities of pickpockets and bag snatchers have started gaining grounds at business centres and market areas in the Accra and Tema metropolises.
Complaints from some victims indicate that no matter how careful one is, the miscreants are able to outwit their victims.
Ghanaians at this time of the year start preparations for Christmas but due to the forthcoming general election, business areas and political rally grounds have become fertile spots for the pickpockets and bag snatchers.
Recounting her experience to the Daily Graphic at Tema on Saturday, the Metropolitan Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Ms Felicia Yeboah, who was a victim to the pickpockets and bag snatchers, said she went to Accra on Saturday morning to visit a brother who had been admitted to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
She said on her way back she decided to join a Tema-bound bus at the Tema Station in Accra without suspecting any movements around her.
Ms Yeboah could not explain how and when her ladies’ handbag was snatched from her even before she could get to the bus terminal.
Ms Yeboah, who was surprised at the incident, said she had her voter’s identity card, press card, cellphone, some amount of money and other personal documents and items in the bag.
She said a good Samaritan offered to pay her transport back to Tema because she had nothing on her.
Ms Yeboah appealed to the transport unions operating at various stations to ask their members to wear identity badges or uniforms to ensure security at the lorry stations.
She explained that many young men paraded the stations under the guise of being “bookmen” and drivers’ mates without wearing any identification tags, thus making it difficult for passengers to know the sort of people around them.
Ms Yeboah also called for security patrols to be intensified at the stations during this electioneering and Christmas period to save the travelling public from the hands of the " anti-social gangs".
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