The Minority in Ghana’s Parliament believes the recently advertised recruitment into the security services is politically motivated and cast doubt on a non-existing backlog as the move is to recruit party vigilantes and goons to help achieve a favourbale outcome in the upcoming 2024 general election.
According to the ranking on defense and Interior Jamse Agalga, advertisements come on the back of a recent petition by the Minority to the Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate our complaint of unequal and unfair recruitment of personnel into the security services based on a purported backlog.
The Minority is amazed that the security services under the Ministry of the Interior namely; the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Prisons Service and the Ghana Immigration Service have all placed open advertisements which restrict the 2024 recruitment process to only persons who applied in 2021, at a time the legality of recruiting from a purported backlog is the subject of a petition before CHRAJ.
“Again, it is an attempt to stampede CHRAJ in its investigations and to mislead Ghanaians into believing that the right thing is finally being done. This development has confirmed our long-held position that the reason why the recruitment was being shrouded in opacity is to create unequal access to some people in the name of a so-called backlog, when no such backlog exists on the record.
Ghanaians have not forgotten how the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP government unleashed party vigilante and goons clothed in uniform on innocent civilians during the 2020 general elections. Eight (8) innocent Ghanaians were killed in the process, including the dastardly shootings at Techiman South”.
The Minority asserts that the peace and security of our dear country and the stability of our democracy will once again be in serious jeopardy should this government be allowed to have its way through this ongoing restricted recruitment into the security services.
“The Minority hereby calls on the National Peace Council, the Christian Council of Ghana, the Office of the National Chief Imam, our Development Partners, Civil Society Organisations and all lovers of peace to speak out before it is too late.
Also, the Minority wishes to renew our call for a strict adherence to a balanced structuring of all the security services including the Ghana Armed Forces, through the creation of equal access and opportunity for all by the security services in terms of recruitment”.
The Minority reiterates that they are in principle not against the recruitment of the youth of this country into the security services. “On the contrary, our objective is to guarantee equal access and opportunity for all regardless of one’s gender, ethnicity, religion or creed when it comes to recruitment into the security services”.
Source: Ecowasnewsonline.com
