Executive Director of the Centre for Public Opinion and Awareness (CenPOA), Michael Donyina Mensah, has labelled Minority Leader, 's commentary about being given slots in the military as an act of corruption.

He averred that the lawmaker's public pronouncement during the vetting of defence minister Dr.

Edward Omane Boamah was unfortunate.

During the vetting of the defence minister, Afenyo-Markin cautioned the Minister of Defence-designate against possibly denying him what he referred to as "a protocol allocation" due to the grilling. "Let me remind you on a lighter note that the fact that I'm grilling you does not mean that when you get there [Ministry of Defence] and you are supposed to give protocol allocation, you deny me." "When I was a Defence Committee member, your ranking-your members benefitted.