Associate Professor President John Evans Atta Mills may be not be the ‘father for all’ President that his party members want to force down the throat of Ghanaians!

According to his spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga, his boss has decided to terminate the appointments of perceived sympathizers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in order to get jobs for his party members.

He said told Oman Fm yesterday that “we came to office to inherit such a system and we needed to address the imbalance. And so if you want to ensure the balance, some of them definitely had to go so that other people of other political traditions will also benefit from the programmes.”

Continuing he said the argument that members of the his party are becoming impatient with his boss’ government is fair adding that ‘we understand their frustrations because our predecessors created a system based on cronyism and nepotism and if you did not belong to a particular political tradition you never had the opportunity to serve in certain public offices or certain offices or opportunity created by the state and I cite as examples for instances as the National Youth Employment Programme, National Health Insurance Scheme, School Feeding Programme.”

“All those programmes that were introduced, majority of the people recruited if not all those recruited were largely members of the NPP and we have taken over such a system and there is pressure on us to overnight to replace all these persons with our own party supporters,” he noted.

“We are not going to replicate what our predecessors did… we are also not going to allow the unfair system that our predecessors established to remain and so we would have to ensure that the existing opportunities created are fairly and equitably distributed among all manner of persons of all sorts of background in this country that is why there was an attempt to reverse the arrangement of the Ghana School Feeding Programme,” he said. He wondered why people did not ask questions when the decision to reverse the School Feeding Programme was taken because according to him, only members of the opposition NPP made the most noise saying that there was a deliberate attempt to get them out of their jobs.

“Any attempts to reverse the unfair arrangement should not be seen that the NDC is being vindictive,” he cautioned.

“All the institutions that were created were being packed by people who hold a particular political ID card but that should not be allowed to stay again, most people there are there on the account of partisan considerations,” he said.