NDC’s Basintale promises Bongo youth 400 slots in security services if NDC wins power
Malik Basintale, the Deputy National Communication Officer of the NDC, has promised to provide 400 slots in the Police, Military, and Immigration Services to constituents in the Bongo constituency if the NDC comes into power in 2025.
Speaking in Bongo at an NDC rally, Basintale said 400 youth of the Bongo community must rest assured that they already have employment in the security services should the NDC win the upcoming December 7 general elections.
“In 2025, I am promising lawyer Charles that we will give the Bongo constituency 400 slots. We will put 400 people into the security services so that we can have men and women in the military from Bongo. Men and women in the Immigration Service from Bongo. Men and women in the police service from Bongo. Men and women in the customs from Bongo. Men and women in the prisons from Bongo.
“The youth of Bongo will get jobs, jobs, and jobs. Bongo is a trans sub-Saharan community. From Bongo, when you get to Namong, you are entering Burkina, but because the road network is not good, the cars don’t use Bongo. Next year, we will construct the road.”
Security experts including Dr. Ishmael Norman have on several occasions called for an end to protocol recruitment into the security services.
He emphasized that the practice is inherently wrong and goes against the principles of fairness and equality enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.
“They have to stop the protocol recruitment. I get angry whenever I hear about it… It is the politicians that are making it possible to happen; we have to stop that. They have to become more accountable to the public,” Dr. Norman stated in an interview on Joy FM’s Top Story on Thursday, August 15, 2024.
He further blamed politicians for creating conditions that lead to self-destruction, stressing the need for responsible leadership to end the practice of protocol recruitment.
According to Dr. Norman, favouritism and partisanship within the recruitment processes are detrimental to the country’s progress, and it is imperative for the government to take decisive action to restore fairness and integrity in the security services.
