Presidential Spokesperson Mahama Ayariga says government terminated appointments of some perceived New Patriotic Party sympathizers in order to streamline the system of recruitment in the country. According to him, the country’s recruitment policy for the past eight years was largely based on nepotism, denying many people who were not affiliated to the NPP the right to employment. “Other political groups were totally excluded from benefiting from the national cake. If you look at organisations and institutions that emerged under the NPP, the National Youth Employment Programme, National Health Insurance, School Feeding Programme, award of contracts and jobs, recruitment into state institutions, we were running a system in which you needed to be a member of a certain political tradition before you could benefit from any of these opportunities. “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 programme,” Mahama Ayariga explained at a news conference at the Castle on Monday. In a bid to resolve the alleged 'stinking' nepotism in the public sector, the presidential spokesperson said government has suffered a backlash from “impatient supporters” who believe government is not doing enough to make some of these positions available to them. “We have come under pressure from all sides because as we try to maintain the balance so that people of other political traditions will benefit, our own party supporters have descended heavily on us, some of whom have become impatient with us because of the level of tolerance that we have exhibited towards people of opposing political traditions.” His comments come just hours after rampaging NDC youth in Tamale issued a three-day ultimatum to the Municipal Chief Executives to be provided jobs, or face the consequences of having party structures reduced to ashes. Mahama Ayariga reckoned that many of the aggrieved supporters suffered the injustice of the Kufuor regime. Listen to excerpts of the press conference in the attached audio Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana