The NDC parliamentary candidate for the Odododiodoo Constituency, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, has defended the recruitment of party supporters into the country’s security agencies, saying it is all part of job creation for the unemployed.
Nii Lantey Vanderpuye at a mini rally in the Odododiodoo Constituency on Saturday mentioned that he had helped some party supporters to be enlisted in the various security agencies in the country.
Speaking on Citi FM on Monday, Mr Vanderpuye insisted the party would do everything within its power to assist all persons seeking employment.
He said: “Under some regime, people are just bundled into buses and dumped on them. In two, three or one month, they are told to pass the people out. We are not doing that. What we do is to recommend our people to buy police forms and thereafter ask them to make us referees.”
He further explained that personnel at the Police Recruitment Centre and the Army Recruitment Centre were not forced to undertake the recruitment, explaining that “rather, we only direct our people on what to do. If they do it, they get recruited.”
“We do it all the time because our people need jobs and we need to recommend them for it because we are not hypocrites,” he added.