- “We are sending the country back years, if we are not careful that will cause the ruin of the country altogether. We can do better than just asking the army to takeover … I don’t think we need that now.”
Ex-Lance Corporal Wisdom Edmond Kudowor, a World War II veteran has bemoaned the current recruitment system in the country’s security agencies.
Referring to the system as “a national disease” he said the current recruitment systems of the various security agencies must be restructured to get the right personnel.
Speaking on Sunday Night with Kent Mensah, Ex-Lance Corporal Kudowor said: “I think that it is a national disease in the recruitment for work. It has become so bad; police, military, prisons, immigration everywhere you go people pay money to get into the army, the police and so on. But as I said, during our time, it was a war situation so there was nothing like paying money into the army. If we can avoid this bribery thing, then most of our problems would be solved.”
He wants politicians to think of the country first and stay off the recruitment process so that the right personnel are recruited into the security agencies.
Coups
On the matter of coups, Ex-Lance Corporal Kudowor said, “Most of us who have lived under military regimes had seen what has gone on and I don’t think we want to encourage that sort of thing [coup].
“We are sending the country back years, if we are not careful that will cause the ruin of the country altogether. We can do better than just asking the army to takeover … I don’t think we need that now.”
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