6-month military training, During an interview on Kings Radio (September 24), Kennedy Agyapong, a flagbearer aspirant for the New Patriotic Party, shared one of his plans for promoting discipline in Ghana if he were to become president after the 2024 general elections. He expressed concern that there is currently a lack of discipline in the country, which leads people to behave in inappropriate ways.
“I will put National Service personnel to good use. Because of indiscipline in Ghana, every National Service person, every university graduate will serve six months in the military,” he told host of the programme.
“You will serve six months in the military before completing your remaining six months National Service,” he stressed.
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National Service is a scheme for all students of tertiary institutions nationwide to serve a year in public or private institutions, more often than not they are deployed across regions to supplement the government workforce and receive a monthly stipend.
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Agyapong, who is sitting Member of Parliament for Assin Central has unveiled a PHD philosophy for presidential bid – Patriotism, Honesty and Discipline.
He has over the past months toured the country meeting delegates selling his political, economic, social and leadership plans as the NPP’s race towards the November 4 presidential primaries heats up.
The four aspirants in the race are Kennedy Agyapong, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, former agric minister Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and former MP, Francis Addai-Nimoh.
The winner of the primary will become a successor to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as leader of the party.
He shall also lead the NPP into the 2024 General Elections.
