The Vice-Chairman of the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament, Collins Owusu Amankwah has insinuated the Minority in Parliament is only involved in diversionary tactics by claiming government is engaging in secret security services recruitment.
According to him, it’s hypocrisy and double standards on the part of the Minority to involve in such claims.
Leader of the Minority, Haruna Iddrisu had claimed that “the attention of the Minority has been drawn to secret and clandestine recruitments into the Ghana Armed Forces, the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Immigration Service. In respect of one, we’re told that the number is about 1,600 recruits.”
In reaction, the Majority in Parliament told journalists, Mr Iddrisu’s claims “were based on hearsay”, adding: “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 maximizing the welfare of our people, we should not reduce the arguments to hearsay.”
He added that the claim by the Minority “could be a diversionary tactic because when Interpol issued a publication on Red Notice, [the] Minority Leader wanted to divert the attention of Ghanaians, so, he just pushed out this story just to divert the public view on the Airbus saga.”
He further explained that the security services are only clearing backlogs and not new recruitments.
“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 (Finance Ministry) is what they are doing. So, they are calling them in batches. It is the same with the Ghana Armed Forces and Ghana Police Service. The emphasis is on the backlog, which ought to be absorbed and based on that they are calling them in batches,” he said.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
