A retired Superintendent of Police and Member of Parliament (MP) for Wa West Constituency, Peter Lanchene Toobu, has reiterated his call for an end to the commercial sale of e-vouchers to prospective applicants into the various security services in the country; describing the practice as political exploitation and abuse of the unemployed youth.
During an interview on Daybreak Upper East on A1 Radio, he said “Why should we be selling the {recruitment} forms continuously for years when the young people are suffering? Do you know what it takes to get a GHS100 in my village to go and purchase a voucher and fill a form; a form that you fill and don’t even have any hope? Over one hundred thousand people apply and we are going to pick only five thousand.”
According to him, “It is a policy decision that must be made by government to say monies should not be collected for recruitment into security services. We shouldn’t take advantage of the unemployed youth to be milking them and making money. So I say it is just political exploitation and abuse of the vulnerable young frustrated people of this country.”
“All the security agencies are government subverted organizations. Meaning its government that gives them money; so if government decides that it is going to give them money or give them financial clearance to recruit personnel,” the security agencies will stop the sale of e-vouchers to interested applicants. He added.
Going forward, Mr. Toobu advised the relevant authorities to “get the criteria set; but as for the voucher, I want it to be free. If you even want to collect money, make it free to a point where people who are screened and have qualified to stage that they are now going to write the exam, then you can ask them to pay something to be able to qualify them to take the exam.”
He also called for a second look at the education system in the country saying “Let’s begin to think about producing employers and not potential employees. Let’s look at entrepreneurial skills, let’s look at innovations and restructure our education towards producing independent minded individuals who will go out there not looking for government jobs but will go out and create something for themselves and their colleagues.”
In doing so, Mr. Toobu believes “We will be producing potential employers and not potential employees”; because according to him, “creation of potential employees is a disaster since we don’t have the employment avenues as a country.”
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1 MHz|Ghana
