Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia has told the grassroots of his political party that cleaning up the system does not equate to removing all members of the New Patriotic Party from their offices and replacing them with NDC members.
According to him, the NDC under the leadership of John Dramani Mahama represents the interest of the Ghanaian people and will not just remove people from office just because they belong to the NPP.
He indicated that the NPP, while in power, took people who were competent out just because of their affiliation with the NDC, but that did not help their government because a number of square pegs were put in round holes.
Also, he is of the view that not all NPP persons in the public sector were engaged in corruption and corruption-related actions, and such persons must be kept in office to work for the country.
“Clean up does not mean removing NPP members and replacing them with NDC members. That is how some people think because the NPP did that when they got power. That is not what we are about to do. We are here to represent the interests of the country. So if there is someone who has committed crimes, their sins will catch up on them,” he said.
“For governance, we are all looking at meritocracy. People who can do the job and do it well. I’ve been in government before, and when another government came and swept all of us, that did not help us or the country, so as a country, we need to learn lessons from the past,” he said on Accra-based Accra FM.
