Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin
Executive Director of the Centre for Public Opinion and Awareness (CenPOA), Michael Donyina Mensah, has labelled Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin’s commentary about being given slots in the military as an act of corruption.
He averred that the lawmaker’s public pronouncement during the vetting of defence minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah was unfortunate.
During the vetting of the defence minister, Afenyo-Markin cautioned the Minister of Defence-designate against possibly denying him what he referred to as “a protocol allocation” due to the grilling.
“Let me remind you on a lighter note that the fact that I’m grilling you does not mean that when you get there [Ministry of Defence] and you are supposed to give protocol allocation, you deny me.”
“When I was a Defence Committee member, your ranking—your members benefitted. I am saying it on authority; they did, and they even had more than we, the NPP members,” Afenyo-Marking stated.
Donyina Mensah, in his remarks, called out the minority leader, stressing that demanding an allocation in the recruitment in the Ghana Armed Forces was corruption.
“During the defence minister’s vetting, the Minority Leader made some unfortunate remarks. We were extremely disappointed by his comments. “For a whole minority leader to make such reckless comments is terrible and seeks to normalise cronyism, and to a large extent, corruption,” he said on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM’s Frontline.
He said this is something that is not acceptable, and we must condemn it as much as we can.
Donyina Mensah added that the minority leader should have been responsible and avoided encouraging these kinds of reckless comments and influence-peddling activities.
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