A CEMETERY, NOW A JOINT FOR SNATCHING......."i was ...a witness".

Anytime you read the news in the dailies or listen on radio, you often here and see reports on someone’s phone or car being snatched. At a point in time, I became so used to hearing these reports with different victims that I considered it a fairy tale.
Consequently, this indicated that property snatching became the order of the day and this deviant bahaviour seemed to have engulfed some youth in the Country.
This “Snatching Fever” that I presumed a fairy tale happened right in my presence one holistic night after we had closed form lectures. The school bus had to convey us to the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and then proceed to our various destinations.
Upon reaching the Kwame Nkrumah Circle bus station, I saw an unusual long queue which made me to panic and not to even think of joining. Around same time, I was spotted by another colleague who has been in the queue for the past 30minutes but has not moved an inch, he then approached me and we decided to trek to Kaneshie hoping we could get easy access to public transport to our respective destinations.
On our way, our conversations was full of nostalgia but when we got to the Awudome Cemetary, an unexpected incident happened, we saw two ladies walking few meters away from us with one holding a luggage and the other carrying a pan.
Surprisingly, we saw a fine dressed man walk towards the ladies and all that we could see is a lady being pushed and the luggage being snatched by the man who dashed into a big gutter leading to a large hole underground heading into the Cemetery.
We had to hurry up to salvage the situation but our efforts proved futile. The victim had to cry with drops of tears from his eyes like water from a tap lamenting that “my whole life is in that bag”.
T o our discovery, the victim was a stranger who hailed from a village in the Eastern Region and is in Accra to visit her boyfriend but had to trek to Kaneshie following the unusual queue at the bus terminal at Circle.
In our own way ,we had to facilitate the communication and transportation of the lady to her boyfriend.
We presumed the snatcher overhead them converse about the valuables in her luggage and her status as a stranger in Accra, but one thing I could not fathom is why these snatchers will use a cemetery as a transit point to snatch properties from their victims, or have they forgotten that it was supposed to be a place to keep mortal remains and has spiritual associations?.
Also, why do we keep hearing incessant snatching of properties and why have state authorities have not put any measures in place to crackdown on these perpetrators.