Ghana is so safe that the citizens of other countries are running to Accra, Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, has said.

A police officer and a hawker were recently shot dead in broad daylight during a bullion van heist by armed robbers at Adedenkpo near Korle Bu.

A woman was also shot in Kumasi recently while returning home with her husband.

There have been reported robbery attempts on the GIMPA road in Accra.

Speaking on the recent rise in the spate of crime, Mr Ambrose Dery said: “What we should know is that the criminals continue to change the modules and we have to be changing with them and the police is doing all it can”, adding: “We have not lost control”.

“I always want to emphasise that we need to go to neighbouring countries to see what is happening there but we are not in the same league with them,” he said.

“We want to do better than we are doing now but believe me, Ghana is safe; that is why all the other countries are running to Ghana”, he told journalists.

However, the Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament, Mr James Agalga, told the media that: “Four more years for Nana has begun with a rise in crime”.

“Ghanaians no longer feel safe compared to our immediate past”, he claimed.

“Violent crime-related cases, particularly robbery, are shaking the foundations of our nation, and it is only fair and a duty for us to call on the Nana Akufo-Addo administration to up its game”, he said.

“We are calling on the President, Chairman of the Security Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, to ensure the peace and security in a country that has remained an oasis of peace in a troubled region is not compromised.”