The Vice-Chairman of the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament, Collins Owusu Amankwah has said that the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu is a hypocrite.
Addressing the press in Parliament last week, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, accused the government of secretly undertaking a recruitment process without giving the required notice.
He described these alleged recruitments into the army, police service, and immigration service as being “clandestine” in nature in view of the fact that only party vigilante members were those considered.
But in Parliament on Monday July 20, 2020 , Mr. Amankwah contended that the claim by Haruna Iddrisu has no basis, especially when there has not been any fresh recruitment into the services.
“It smacks of hypocrisy and double standards on the part of the Minority Leader. He knows that the process has been very open and transparent, to the extent that he knows that those who are being called for training are Ghanaians who qualified and he admitted in his claims that some qualified but he wants the due process to be followed,” he said.
Mr. Amankwah added that “His claims were based on hearsay. He himself admitted that he was told. And I think we should be serious in this country. In the wake of COVID-19 where people want to see that we are maximising the welfare of our people, we should not reduce the arguments to hearsay.”
The MP further indicated that recruits currently in training are persons who are back from home to resume training that was truncated due to COVID-19.
“Ghana Immigration Service, for instance, 84,000 people applied and out of that number, over 41,000 were shortlisted. And for them to do justice to the shortlisted applicants through financial clearance through the Ministry responsible for Finance Ministry is what they are doing,” he stated.
This is not the first time the Minority has accused the government of secret recruitment of persons into security agencies.
Last year, the Ranking Member on the Defense and Interior Committee, James Agalga, said the government is recruiting cronies into the police, prison services, among others without recourse to the laid down procedures.
Prior to that, the National Democratic Congress flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama had claimed that the government was also training party thugs at the Asutsuare Military Training Camp ahead of the general elections in December 2020.
Source: MyNewsGh.com
