Determinants and impact of armed Robbery in the city of Bamenda, Cameroon

This paper examines the determinants and impact of armed robbery in the city of Bamenda. Armed robbery remained a source of continuous threat, harassments, violence and intimidation to the city dwellers of Bamenda, North West Region of Cameroon. Therefore, armed robbery was considered a crime as stipulated by the Cameroon penal code of 2016. The paper argues that armed robbery in the city of Bamenda caused socio-economic and political imbalances among the social stratum of the city inhabitance. The study adopts the qualitative approach to assess the causes and impact of armed robbery in the city of Bamenda. Our findings revealed that though efforts had been initiated by the state and indigenous inhabitants to eradicate the predicaments of armed robbery in the city, armed robbery continued to permeate into the fabrics of the city.