Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah calls government’s security recruitment exploitative

Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, MP for Manhyia South and Vice Chairman of the Subsidiary Legislative Committee of Parliament has described the government’s security service recruitment exercise as exploitative, following reports that over 500,000 young Ghanaians paid application fees for a process that will absorb only 5,000 people. Speaking in an exclusive interview on the AM […]


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