NPP members will always be our priority-MP

MP for Ablekuma North constituency on the ticket of the NPP, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie, has said she will always prioritize her party members ahead of any party member for a job.

According to her, there is nothing wrong with prioritizing the needs of members of the party than others in her constituency.

She believes addressing the needs of NPP members first makes more sense because such individuals supported the party’s bid for power.

In a radio interview with Accra based JoyFM, Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie said it is a norm for every party to favor its members ahead of other party members.

“It is not about NPP, NDC, but NPP are of course my priority and I ensure that they get it. I emphasize that every Member of Parliament or government that comes [to power] ensures that they also follow and help [supporters] to get a place.”

“We are not trying to be honest but everybody, [that is] NDC member will tell you NDC is his priority, but me, mine statement from beginning was that it doesn’t matter whether you come from NPP, NDC, CPP or whatever, the fact that you need a job and you come at the right time and it is there, I’ll give it to you,” she added.

NPP Gov't's High Commissioner to South Africa makes similar comment

Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa George Ayisi-Boateng, while speaking to members of the Tertiary Students’ Confederacy Network (TESCON) in the Ashanti Region over made similar comments last year, he said his first priority as a government appointee is members of the NPP, and that if he had his own way, members of TESCON will be prioritized for various jobs.

“…this government is doing its best to create job opportunities and me for instance, I told my people over there [that], it is because of NPP that I’m here, so the NPP man is my priority. I told them when NDC was in power it was Kwesi Ahwoi who was there, now we are in power, so Ayisi-Boateng is here with you. My topmost priority is the problems of an NPP person before any other Ghanaian, take it or leave it,” he said.

The commissioner after the public condemnation for his comment apologized for his unguided utterances.

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