Majority Challenges Minority To Provide Evidence Of Recruitment Of NPP Footsoldiers Into The Security Services

The Majority group in Ghana’s Parliament has described as baseless and preposterous allegations by the Minority Caucus that all 275 parliamentary candidates (PCs) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been allocated 30 recruitment slots each into security services. 

It has accordingly challenged the NDC Minority to provide factual evidence to back its claims.

According to the Majority, those claims were not only false but were a desperate attempt by the Minority to incite the public against the government ahead of the 2024 elections.

“The Minority’s assertion that NPP parliamentary candidates, including 138 sitting MPs, have each been given 30 recruitment slots is mathematically and administratively ludicrous,” it said.

Addressing a press conference in Parliament on Tuesday, the Deputy Majority Leader, Patricia  Appiagyei, said “To suggest that 8,250 new recruits could be absorbed into our security forces in a system that traditionally accommodates between 1,000 to 1,200 recruits annually shows a profound misunderstanding of the operational and financial frameworks of our security institutions,” she said.