The Minority in Parliament has called for a suspension of the ongoing security service recruitment exercise to ensure challenges associated with the process are addressed.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, emphasised that attempts by over 500,000 youth to be recruited into the security service pose a security threat to Ghana’s democracy.
“Can the recruitment process be suspended so that these concerns are properly ironed out? The system that has been introduced, for want of a better word, is duping the youth. The youth are being duped. It is like a scam.
“How can you introduce a so-called AI platform where you want to go to Immigration and it asks you what the size of a basketball court is?” he stressed.
He also cautioned the government against any fuel increases as a result of tensions in the Middle East, following assurances of adequate fuel buffers.
“If indeed we have sufficient buffers, we don’t expect any increase in fuel prices. Government must subsidise because in Akufo-Addo’s era you said Ukraine Russia war should not have any effect on Ghana,” he stressed.
