Some youth in some parts of the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis have resorted to breaking into people’s vehicles and kitchens and making away with cooked foods, soup and car batteries.
Some residents of Kweikuma have alleged that whenever they prepare food for the family, they realise the next day that thieves have broken into their kitchens and taken away pots containing the food.
Those who park their vehicles in front of their houses have also complained of the theft of their car batteries and car tapes in the night.
As a result of the alleged thefts, most residents who do not live in walled premises are compelled to carry the cooked food to their bedrooms for the fear of losing it to thieves in the night.
Some Assembly members have attributed the thefts to the high rate of unemployment in their electoral areas and expressed surprise that most of the youth were not just unemployed but also unemployable because they lacked employable skills.
Some of the Assembly members, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they had managed to get some of the youth to acquire skills but had abandoned the programmes in search of quick money.
They said two youth had been arrested in connection with some thefts in other parts of the metropolis.
One of them was seriously assaulted after he was apprehended for stealing soup and car batteries at dawn last Wednesday, but was saved by the police.
The Regional Police Command said they had received some complaints and were intensifying their patrols in the communities to ensure that the citizens were safe.
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