A former deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Osei Kwame Prempeh has revealed that the immediate past National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration recruited over 11,000 people into the public sector during the transition period.
“Somebody informed me that the immediate past NDC administration recruited over 11,000 people into the public sector including Tema Port during the transition period,” he alleged.
Hon. Osei Kwame Prempeh revealed this on Oman FM on Tuesday during a discussion on reports of some supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) allegedly besieging some public institutions and threatening to eject the workers.
The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo in the Ashanti Region, who expressed disgust at the John Mahama led administration for undertaking what he described as ‘last minute’ recruitment of public sector workers, indicated that the NPP administration would use all legal means to review all the ‘last minute’ recruitment of workers into the public sector.
He emphasized that the new administration would not hesitate to ensure that those who were not qualified, but were recruited based on their party affiliations with NDC are removed from the government's pay roll.
"NPP will not allow the past government to tie its hands at the back,” he said.
Lawyer Osei Prempeh urged supporters of the NPP to exercise restraint as the President was still in the process of putting his team of ministers together for effective and efficient running of the country.
“As we speak, President Nana Akufo-Addo is still appointing his ministers and so we will wait after we are done with the appointments and have taken over fully, then we will look into all these issues.
“So our supporters should be patient. They should worry about getting some job to do,” he assured.
It would be recalled that the immediate past NDC administration put a freeze on public sector employment after signing a three-year programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the aim of restoring fiscal discipline and stability of the country’s economy.
It was, therefore, shocking how the then government could quickly employ such number of its party faithful into the public sector.
Source: Oman FM
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Are the 11000 Ghanaians? Then it's cool
aRABA, look at how I spelled your name. The Young recruits and public servants who passed through the formal process from January 2007 were fired in February 2008. Were they from Togo? I.d.i.ot. Kwa. sia.baa. Abo.a nye.w
right good English,your English is so bad
Some of us thought ndc had a lot of fuulls but since assumption office on January 7, I have observed that there more fuulls in Npp than in Ndc. You've voted for you to come and change the status quo, you rather came to bring blame game and displaying the same nun sense that the Ndc displayed. When I heard Freddie Blay said the supporter were storming offices to protect the government purse, I asked myself, are all workers in Ghana today supporters of Ndc. Some of us voted for Npp, so if you come to my workplace to misbehave, is it not a slap in our faces. Just imagine, the nun sense of this guy claiming Ndc employed about 11000 supporters before exiting. If they did, what is wrong with that. You have been voted into, power because you said you could do the work, so shut the fk up and do as you promised.
Mahama has never putting Ghana first. When did IMF lifted the employment freeze that Mahama rushed to employ?
@yaw, you need evidence? look at how covetous your john mahama is. I now understand the greedy bastards tag. your party is so greedy.
why at all does this happen in our dear land Ghana? in fact if it is true, then this is a pure disgrace and a minus. why would JDM wait till after loosing election then give out jobs? why have we lost all the love for our dear nation Ghana? ndc did put a freeze on hiring of workers into the public sector so why go around and hire? I speak as a nurse who graduated from Kumasi nursing training college (KATH). trained teachers and nurses were not hired so why wait till last minute? I disagree with npp supporters running to and sounding warning to employees of various government works. However, ndc without any sense of disgrace led by late JEA Mills sacked police recruits who were in school training and had few weeks to graduate because their recruitment happened during npp's era. A sec school friend of mine who was to attend the police academy after those who were sacked were to have graduated never had the opportunity to be recruited. My question is: Ghana, so when are we as a nation especially our politicians going to put the nation first? we act so "stupidly" and childishly in this 21st century. Why our leaders why?
ANY evidence?
Why didn't he recruited them but waited till he lost. Ndc sore losers.Anyway money stolen from the government coffers by ndc ministers will be used to create jobs so don't worry koraa.