Youth activist Oliver Barker Vormawor has called on the government to not just sack persons recruited after December 7.

Rather, he believes there is a need to investigate how thousands of Ghanaian youth were recruited after the previous government lost the election.

He says a number of the people who have found themselves in the current challenge are victims of extortion by persons in the public service and some elected officers.

To nip these things in the bud, Oliver Barker Vormawor wants a national conversation around the last-minute recruitment and the persons who initiated them dealt with by the law.

"A lot of the people who are affected, let's be clear; not all of them are party footsoldiers or persons we were trying to push into the public service. A lot of them are also innocent Ghanaians who needed jobs.

"There is a bigger problem that we need to think about, which is the human cost of some of these back and forth that we do. So many of these people as well are taken advantage of, people are made to pay huge sums of money so that they are pushed into the services.

"These things are things that we need to investigate. We can make allies of the people we say we are sacking themselves to become whistleblowers of the vast amount of money people are asked to pay to get jobs in this country.

"I'm particularly pained for young people who are caught up in this web. There is a bigger problem and conversation around this mass recruitment; it is not normal that in a few months to election thousands of people are recruited and we don't think that there is something untoward that needs to be investigated.

"There are public servants who are involved, there are elected people who are involved and this is a scheme for them to make money and we need to get to them as well," he said.