Deputy Health Minister, Alexander Akwasi Acquah has described as “funny” the actions of the Minority Caucus in Parliament following the government’s decision to recruit some 152,000 trainee nurses.
His reaction follows the Minority’s description of the government’s decision to recruit over 15,000 nurses and midwives as a ‘political gimmick’.
According to the minority, the decision is a calculated move to woo disgruntled nursing trainees into voting for the NPP in the December 7, 2024 general elections.
This comment, Alexander Akwasi Acquah said can never be a true representation of the intention of the government.
According to him, government did so as part of efforts to seeking the well-being of the people and also ensuring that it bridges the unemployment gap in the country.
“In recent times, we [NPP] recruited some of these trainees nurses leaving some behind but with government commitment and the finance ministry’s clearance, we are going to recruit these 152,000 trainees. So if people sit somewhere and say they do not see the government handwriting, it baffles me” he said on the Angel Morning Show.
Mr. Acquah stressed that “It is sometimes worrying and funny when the same NDC who claim the country has no resources to employ workers are the same people making U-turn to term government’s recruitment as political gimmick.”
According to the deputy minister who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Oda Constituency, the minority has always opted to criticize good things from the NPP; a practice he described as “nation wreckers”
“When the NDC took Ghana to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2013, they could not do any recruitment of these trainee nurses until we the NPP came into power in 2016 to do that because every graduates at the period was home without postings,” he said.
He further urged Ghanaians to disregard the minority’s assertion which was deemed to downplay the government’s efforts because their actions amount to one that is very “funny” and “lacks understanding.”
Akwasi Acquah urged the NDC to be serious for once and desist from cheap politics because they are becoming more of nation-wreckers than nation-builders.
“…While we are doing serious business to ensure nation building, the NDC have rather resorted to doing partisan politics,” he said.
