Dr. Mark Kurt Nawaane, Member of Parliament and NDC parliamentary candidate for Nabdam, has alleged that the recruitment process is deeply flawed, with pre-selected candidates and allocated slots favouring certain individuals, including parliamentary candidates who are not currently serving members of Parliament.
“Even now as we speak, they have allocated some to their Parliamentary Candidates who are not MPs,” he stated.
Dr. Nawaane claimed that the recruitment process is supposed to be decentralised, with MPs and District Chief Executives (DCEs) instructed to gather names from their districts.
“To always ensure a minimum from your district, the DCEs and Members of Parliament are always informed. So this is private information that passes through us to our districts to make sure that there is decentralisation of the process. However, I’m telling you that in actual fact, they never do decentralise. They take everything. In fact, recruitment into the armed forces is for sale.”
He contended that this decentralisation is merely a facade. He pointed out that the actual recruitment often does not align with the names submitted by districts, suggesting a lack of transparency and a widespread scam.
“The process is unfair because first and foremost, the process is not decentralised,” he said. “They are not people that are honest. They don’t want to spread the cake to the whole nation for everybody to get his share.”
He further accused the recruitment process of being commercialised, stating that opportunities are sold, even among members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“Everything now is for sale. Even among the NPP people, when they get it, they try to sell it. It is too bad in the country now,” he lamented.
Source: A1Radioonline.com | 101.1MHz | Gifty Eyram Kudiabor | Ghana
