Navrongo Central’s Constituency Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region, Moses Amoah, has passionately appealed to the current government to do everything within its power to ensure the practice of selling forms to prospective job seekers into the security services is nipped in the bud.
According to him, the current phenomenon was an avenue of discriminating against persons who might be competent yet financially incapable of purchasing the forms that will enable them to pass through the process.
Mr. Amoah has also bemoaned that the processes applicants normally go through before attaining employment into the services which he says is out of date that often leads to the struggles associated with it, and ought to be looked at.
“On the sale of forms and mode of the recruitment processes and all that, I think that moving on as a country, we have to look at some of these things. I honestly think that the sale of the forms, personally, I am against it and I don’t think that it is a good thing that any government should do. I don’t care whether anybody at all has ever condemned it in the past, anybody supports it or not. As a young person growing up and looking at how some of the young people struggle and all that, we need to scrap all these things. To apply and pay money to be recruited into the security services is completely unacceptable. So, I think that going forward the government and I think the interior ministry should look at this thing so that we make these forms free of charge for people”
“This hundred cedis that they pay, we might look at it to be small money but someone elsewhere might even struggle to get fifty cedis. The person might be qualified, the person might have the enthusiasm and that kind of interest to work in any of these security services but the mere fact that he or she cannot this amount of hundred cedis to go and buy the forms is something that will probably derail that person’s chance of being enlisted. Going forward, I think that the processes of enlistment is outmoded,” he said.
He spoke exclusively on Daybreak Upper East show on A1 Radio.
He added that the current status quo where applicants are congested in queues provides a fertile ground for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, a communication team member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abdallah Jonathan Salifu toed the same line with Mr. Amoah.
He observed that the current situation continued to serve as a stumbling block to most competent potential applicants since a majority of Ghanaians live in abject poverty.
He stated that most Ghanaians dwell in the hinterlands where it is pretty hard to afford three square meals a day talk less of accessing a hundred cedis to purchase forms.
He thus called for the entire process to be changed so it would be accessible to all Ghanaians.
Their comments come on the back of the mass number of enthusiastic Ghanaian youth queuing up with the hope of getting employment into the various security services in the country.
Source|A1radioonline.com|101.1|MHz|Elijah Beyeni Yenibey|Ghana
