Upper East Regional Youth Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salahu-Deen Musah Al-Khomeini has dismissed allegations of bribery in the recruitment processes of the security services.
According to him, claims that job seekers are made to pay bribes for recruitment into the security services are mere fabrications.
“These (claims that people are pay bribes for employment into the security services) are unsubstantiated allegations.
I heard these allegations. I took time to investigate the matter but I couldn’t find a single person who told me that ‘yes, I am part of the people who bought this job for 10,000 or, 20,000’. I couldn’t get any. So I come to the conclusion that these are still stories people are making up and there is no much justification to them,” he stated.
Recruitment into the public sector especially the security services are said to be riddled with massive corruption in recent times.
Job seekers are reportedly made to pay as much as 20, 000 in order to gain employment into the service.
But speaking in an interview on State of Our Nation, Mr. Salahu-Deen said there is no evidence to back the allegations.
He claimed he had launched a probe to ascertain the veracity of the claims when they were brought to his attention.
His probe, however, found no evidence of such corrupt acts ongoing in the recruitment processes thus, the allegations are mere fabrications, he said.
Mr. Salahu-Deen also dismissed claims of secret recruitment into the security services.
He explained that due to lack of resources, the processes take a longer time hence, recruitment which started years ago may still be ongoing and should not be misconstrued as secret employment.
“For our security services, we don’t have the needed infrastructure to be able to train all the people at once. So if we say we are recruiting 1,000, you may begin by training 500 or 200 then next time, another 200.
And these are people who have already applied and they are in the system. So you’ve done the selection, you train them at this time, you graduate them, you prepare again, train the next batch, you graduate them and train others again”.
