Give us jobs before dissolving our groups – boys from Kandahar to Akufo-Addo

General News on Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-04-02

The Kandahar Boys, members of a group of militias belonging to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), want jobs to be provided before the break-up of their group.

The group's spokesman, Alhbadan Amin, said the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, had promised to provide them with decent jobs and wanted him to respect his obligations before dissolving the groups.

"The last time the president was in Tamale and that he called the Kandahar group and that he met us, he said," I know you suffered for the party to come to power. What do you want? "And we told him that some of us are graduates, others are businessmen and he promised to help us.

"And that's all, he never saw us again. He did not tell us "I'll give you 10,000 GH ¢, 10,000 GH ¢, 50,000 GH ¢ or 1 million GH ¢. He only said that I would contact you. Anyway, I will contact you, "Amin told Kwesi Parker-Wilson of Joy News.

The Kandahar Boys are one of the country's notorious militia groups. After the NPP's victory in the 2016 general election, the group fired former administration officers from their offices, locked them and confiscated public property.

Their actions were not limited to members of the opposition party. They bravely drove the CEO of Tamale University Hospital after accusing him of mismanagement, corruption and nepotism.

The group has again blatantly attacked the offices of the Highways Authority (GHA) in the northern region of Ghana, accusing officials of awarding contracts to their opponents.

They did not understand why the contract for the construction of the Daboya road in the region had been awarded to a contractor from the National Democratic Congress.

Taking over the GHA offices on motorcycles, they scattered papers after learning that the officer in charge was not there.

Prior to the attack, they had visited the offices twice with verbal threats after gathering information that the contract could be awarded to the NDC contractor.

These acts and many others seem to be what occupied the members of these partisan militia groups.

But with the charge of the president for this group and similar alike, affiliated with both the NPP and the NDC – Delta Forces, Azorka Boys, Invincible Forces, Bolgatanga Bull Dogs, The Hawks – to be dissolved, Kandahar boys do not want to be left behind hanging.

They believe that the dissolution of their groups – which has served as a source of employment – will leave them unemployed, leaving them with disabilities.

They have kept the presumed promise of the president and now want it to be fulfilled.