Ghanaian youth unsurprisingly, were hypnotized by the Utopian presentation of a 1:3:3 formula that would address the unemployment debacle in the country head-on.
The 24-Hour Economy module was one of the contents of the NDC propaganda dangled in front of youth desperate for jobs as they roamed from office to office, certificates in their armpits in search of elusive jobs. Why won’t they fall for what has turned out to be a political scam? They voted impressively for the NDC as they waited anxiously for their dreams of also getting jobs to come true.
The then opposition leader John Mahama could not have put it better and convincingly when he said because discotheques, chop bars and others would open 24/7 more security agents would be employed. These agents would be required to provide security services to the nightly businesses…spanning wakye sellers and vulcanisers, mechanics, welders to banks. When news about recruitment into the security services was broken the rush to grab forms was understandable… the 24-Hour Economy deal was dawning.
After all there would be an unprecedented number of applicants being recruited going by then opposition leader John Mahama’s word. Unfortunately after exhausting all the processes following the payment of fees only 5000 out of the 505,000 who applied would be recruited.
Disappointed young Ghanaians can only pose questions about what happened to the 24-Hour Economy special numbers to boost security management? Maybe they are in a hurry and have to endure the stress of waiting till the module is fully functional perhaps in 2028. We agree with the opinion of a section of Ghanaians who think that many of the youth applicants were convinced that the 24-Hour Economy module is real and not a phantom concept.
Only five thousand out of the 505,000 applicants would be considered. The principle of shortlisting for employment was ignored by the policy makers who were too loud about what they said was a better way of addressing the challenges associated with such processes.The Interior Minister is under fire by his NDC colleagues and supporters for the mess associated with this year’s recruitment sessions.
Party supporters who were not touched by the protocol option have reserved uncharitable words for the Minister who boasted that he won’t bend the rules.
That cannot be the truth anyway because protocol is now part of the recruitment architecture. Because of the numbers many party boys and girls were not considered and as they nursed their emotional wounds they were greeted with unpalatable words from Party Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketiah. According to him if so many, 500,000, are recruited into the Police there would be no robbers to arrest. Does that suggest the number is made up of thieves? If that is irritating the words from the Interior Minister Muntaka Mubarak would have you scratching your head.
The Asawase MP said many of the potential recruits were boozemen, wee smokers and mental patients. Minister this is a harsh description of your compatriots some of who worked for the NDC to come to power. Maybe at the time they were being deployed to go and cause mayhem at collation centres they were not wee smokers.
