Business News of Wednesday, 23 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• General Secretary of the MMAAG says more than 200 MoMo agents have been attacked between January-June• He says the robbery attacks have left some agents deformed• He also disclosed that all efforts to engage the police for security of agents have proven futileGeneral Secretary of the Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAAG), Evans Otumfuo, has disclosed that over 200 mobile money vendors have been attacked in the first half of 2021. He made these revelations whiles speaking in an interview with Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Morning show on Tuesday June 22, 2021. "So for now, I could say from January to June, that is the first half of 2021, we might be recording not less than 200 attacks on mobile money agents," he stressed. Otumfuo added that as a result of these attacks, huge sums of money have been taken from most of their agents. Within the wider context of rising insecurity in the country, attacks on mobile money vendors have been identified as one of the common violent crimes recorded nationwide.

Source: GhanaWeb June 23, 2021 18:56 UTC