National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has questioned the growing number of young people seeking to join the country’s security services, suggesting that the situation reflects deeper challenges in the job market.
His remarks come after the Minister for the Interior, Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, disclosed that more than 105,000 applicants have progressed to the medical stage of the ongoing security services recruitment exercise, even though only about 5,000 positions are available for final enlistment.
Speaking on the development, Asiedu Nketia used a childhood analogy to illustrate what he described as the imbalance in the number of people seeking to become police officers.
“When we were children, we used to play police and thief,” he said. “We never played police and police. At every point, someone had to be the police and another had to be the thief.”
He questioned how such a large number of people could all aspire to join the police service at the same time.
“How can 500,000 people say they want to be police? If they all become police, who will become the thief? If there are no thieves, what will be the essence of the police?” he asked.
According to him, the surge in applications for security jobs points to the intense competition for limited employment opportunities in the country.
The ongoing recruitment into the security services has attracted hundreds of thousands of applicants nationwide, highlighting the strong demand for stable government jobs among Ghana’s youth.
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