Godlove Adjei Tenkorang, a private legal practitioner and lecturer at the Faculty of Law, has claimed that President John Mahama’s directive to increase Security recruitment benefits only the NDC faithful.
According to the Lecturer, the expansion of recruitment slots by President John Dramani Mahama was influenced by internal party pressures.
He alleged that the increased security recruitment will only benefit the NDC party faitfuls after they raised concerns.
Speaking on Angel FM, Kumasi Godlove Adjei Tenkorang stated, “The leaders have their protocols. The increase in the slots was a response to party faithful who complained they were not given opportunities”.
“If you are not part of the NDC, you are unlikely to benefit from the recruitment. That means the security services risk being dominated by party members,” he claimed.
He cautioned, “We are gradually destroying the integrity of the security services. The opposition is watching. When they come into power, they may repeat the same thing”.
His comments follow, President John Dramani Mahama has directed an increase in security services recruitment from 5000 to 10,000 yearly.
A statement from the presidency dated Monday, March 16, revealed the directive comes following a high-level meeting with heads of the various agencies.
President Mahama’s directives will see the number of men and women recruited to the various security agencies increased from twenty thousand (20,000) to forty thousand (40,000) over four years.
In a Presidency communication shared by signed by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, read, “President John Dramani Mahama has held a high-level meeting with the Heads of Security Agencies, Minister for the Interior and Acting Minister for Defence on the ongoing security services recruitment process.
Following a briefing on the process, the President has directed that the number of men and women to be recruited to the various security agencies should be increased from twenty thousand (20,000) to forty thousand (40,000) over a four-year period.
The President has also directed the Heads of the Security Agencies to ensure transparency and fairness in the recruitment process.
Present at the meeting were the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the President, Senior Presidential Advisor on Governmental Affairs, National Security Coordinator, Inspector General of Police, Director General Prisons, Director General Fire Service, Comptroller-General of the Ghana Immigration Service and the Director General of the Narcotics Control Commission”.
Meanwhile, the Adentan Member of Parliament (MP), Ramadan Adamu Mohammed, has lamented about the current agitations by NDC grassroots members over their mass disqualification from the security services recruitment.
According to Ramadan Adamu Mohammed, during the NPP’s tenure, all MPs had to do was just submit a list of interested persons who wanted to join the security services, and they would jump the process to the medical before you know it, and they are already in uniforms.
Ramadan Adamu Mohammed further lamented that under the NDC unfortunately the party likes to follow the rules too much.
Speaking to some members of NDC in the Adenta constituency, Ramadan Adamu Mohammed stated, “This recruitment, during the NPP’s tenure, all they would ask was to bring the interested person’s name for recruitment.
The person will not have to go through the process; the person will jump straight to the medicals. By the time you know the person, they are already wearing the uniform. Unfortunately, it’s like we, the NDC, are following the rules too much. Today, when I got here, a lot of people have complained to me. Our people who have worked for the party must see the reward on earth before they go to heaven”.