“If all 500,000 applicants are recruited into the police, where will they find thieves to arrest?” – Asiedu Nketia

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Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said that if all 500,000 applicants are recruited into the police, where will they find thieves to arrest?

Speaking to party supporters in Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region, Asiedu Nketia stated, “500,000, it is not 5000, 500,000 people want to join the Police. If you look at the 500,000 applicants and all are recruited into the police, where will they find thieves to even arrest? We all have become police; who are we going to arrest?”.

“If you are the president, and 500,000 people want to join the police, what are you going to do? Police recruitment is not about writing letters; then you are done. When they are recruited, we must look for money to pay them and also where they will work”.  

Some Ghanaians reacting to the NDC Chairman’s remarks stated, “If you sit here and insult Gen. Mosquito, because of this, then you don’t know who the man is. He likes to make jokes about some things, and this is one of them. Mo de3 bibiaaa na mo di at3m smh. Young young people too ohm”

“The leader of the NDC, the incoming flagbearer. He speaks for the NDC, and what he is saying is basically the plan of the NDC; they plan to push more youth into armed robbery”, a netizen added.

“This was a joke made! And you should know that dealing with thieves is just a tiny part of the police service job. They do more than just go after thieves”, a netizen added.

“I don’t care whether he said it on a lighter note. At this moment, when the applicants are grieving, such an insensitive comment should not even come out of your lips! Nonsense kraaa

You people sell over 500k forms knowing you only wanted to employ 5k personnel, and this is what a supposed future presidential candidate is joking with”, one X user added.  

In related news, 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”.

Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament has called on the Interior Ministry to refund approximately GH¢113 million collected from applicants who failed to qualify in the ongoing security recruitment exercise.

 Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, accused the John Mahama government of exploiting Ghanaian applicants and called for an investigation.

According to Ntim Fordjour, the Interior Ministry knew they were recruiting only 5,000, but lured half a million people just to milk applicants of GH¢113 million.

Speaking to journalists on Thursday, March 12, 2026, the Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, stated, “Already, we have a national security threat and unemployment on our hands. You promised them jobs. You didn’t add any conditions”.

“Then you turn around, you politically expand the age limit from twenty-five to thirty-five, signalling that there is more room and more access, more financial clearance, which was a lie”.

“You knew from the very beginning you were recruiting only 5,000, and yet you did all this to lure half a million people, took their money, milked them GH¢113 million cedis and over, only to turn around yesterday, after you have knocked them out by technology and internet disruptions from the aptitude test,” he said.

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