Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, has said it is "very necessary" to have party boys recruited into National Security due to the "trend our politics has taken".
According to him, the government in power cannot compromise on its security as well as the nation’s, as such there is a need to work with people that it can trust and feel secured around, knowing that the door is always safe.
He emphatically stated on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ newspaper discussion segment that it is a necessity for every government in power to have "members of its party", its "own boys" drafted into the National Security unit as soon as it wins power.
“I think you are not aware of certain things; every government in power employs into state security office its party boys and trains them to be part of the security force. It is not a problem at all employing party boys into national security operations, because we need them to protect us,” Carlos Ahenkorah told UTV.
“ . . .Also, we put our own party boys in such places because we are secured and trust we can sleep well when they are around to protect us. How can you put somebody who is not on your side to be your security guard?” The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema West further quizzed.
He noted that individuals within government sectors, particularly security settings, must change their line of responding to official duties no matter the party in power to prevent political parties from questioning their loyalty; which he said, should always be to the state.
He was speaking in relation to the NDC's Presidential primaries held las Saturday and Nigeria's General Election currently ongoing.
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IT IS EITHER MOST OF YOU PEOPLE ARE ***barred word*** OF WHAT HAPPENS AT NATIONAL SECURITY IN GHANA OR YOU ARE HYPOCRITES. LT. COL. GBEVLO LARTEY SACKED ALL "KUFUOR BOYS" IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY IN 2009 AND REPLACED THEM WITH NDC BOYS WHEN THE LATE ATTA MILLS TOOK OVER AS PRESIDENT. THIS IS NOT ONLY A FACT BUT THE TRUTH. THE MAN (DEP MIN) IS TELLING YOU THE REAL LIFE OCCURRENCE AND YOU ARE JUST SPEAKING/WRITING ENGLISH. EVEN IN THE US, WHEN A NEW PARTY TAKES OVER GOVERNANCE, SOME CHANGES IN THE SECURITY SECTOR ARE MADE. WHO IN GHANA HAVE OVER THE YEARS BEEN LEAKING SENSITIVE OFFICIAL GOVT DOCUS TO THE OPPOSITION?? IS IT NOT OPPOSITION PARTY MEMBERS HOLDING SENSITIVE POSITIONS?? ANYTIME NDC COMES TO POWER AGAIN, THEY WILL SACK THESE "NPP BOYS" AND REPLACE SAME WITH "NDC BOYS" FOR THE VERY REASON THE DEP MINISTER IS ALLUDING TO. OUR TYPE OF POLITICS IS WHOLLY DIRTY AND TURNS OTHERWISE GOOD CHRISTIANS INTO LIARS AND CROOKS. LET US CHANGE THE WAY WE DO THINGS....NOW!!!
Is this man also a minister?
Its not your fault. Such is the politics in Ghana and not who would've been you. Your actions since you power is not different from an illiterate so no wonder.
needless
This is a big Joke. This very statement will come back and bite him. When the NPP is in opposition. This is not the way to build a nation and its institutions. Our Institutions should me manned by trained professional s who know what they are doing and not staffed by party boys. Our institutions should outlive any government in power.
You should stayed in the freight forwading industry. It is clear your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top. What a joke, and the Prez selected this dude as a dep minister and if it wasn't for politics, no way, parliament will pass this joke.
Claiming you need to employ party boys means ndc were supposed to do same while in power. If that is so, why then did your party send only npp members dressed in masks to go and forment trouble in ayawaso?
This is very needless at this time, my brother. Just zip it.
***barred word*** guy
My Nephew Carlos, you can't be serious!