THE inspector general of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant-Geneneral Lukas Hangula, on Monday urged African governments to seriously tackle economic crime, saying it is an evil of concern to the whole world. He said crime patterns in Africa split into two major areas: physical or violent crimes such as murder, rape, assault and homicide and crimes of much wider and nation-devastating consequences. “Economic crimes which, if left unchallenged, have the capacity to economically cripple the existence of nations and to reduce Africans to beggars,” he told a three-day meeting of the English-speaking sub-group on Economic Crime for the Africa region.