Minority Leader, Afenyo-Markin, has proposed that the Ministry of the Interior consider refunding the fees of applicants disqualified from the security service recruitment.
According to Afenyo-Markin, if the Ministry of the Interior can’t refund disqualified applicants, they should consider measures to allow them to be recruited in future years without the need to purchase vouchers again.
Speaking on the floor of parliament, Afenyo Markin stated, “Beyond this, we may have to look at the number of people who have bought forms and have gone through all this hell and whether there is a way for them to get their money refunded if they do not get the opportunity.
If they cannot be refunded, there must be a system to move them next year. Because over 200,000 have bought forms, 90,000 plus are going through the aptitude test, and we are being told only 5000 will be taken”, he added.
Meanwhile, Muntaka Mubarak, the Minister for the Interior, has revealed that only 5000 applicants out of 105,000 qualified for medicals will be recruited.
The Interior Minister stressed that the introduction of the aptitude test was to prevent the unfair practice of having 400,000 people pay for medicals for a space of 5,000.
According to the Interior Minister, the pass mark of the aptitude exams was 65, which has 105,000 applicants qualifying for medicals.
Addressing a press briefing on Wednesday, March 11, made this known to the public, revealing that only 5000 applicants out of 105,000 qualified for medicals will be recruited.
Also, the Interior Minister has announced that only 1,000 applicants will be recruited into the Ghana Immigration Service out of more than 180,000 who applied.
According to the Interior Minister, the Ghana Immigration Service’s current infrastructure, logistical capacity and training limit the number of recruits it can accommodate.
Speaking to the media, Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka stated, “The total of over 180,000 young men wanted to join the Ghana Immigration Service. But the interesting thing is that today, the Ghana Immigration Service, the strength, from the Comptroller General to the last officer, stands at 18,300. Less than 20,000, yet you have 180,000 opting to join,” he said.
“Unfortunately, because of the physical space, we could only have space for 1,000,” he stated.
Also, Ghanaian media personality, Saddick Adams, has said NO Ghanaian should be charged any application fees to serve in a security service, only for 90% to be disqualified.
In a post he wrote, “I insist that NO Ghanaian should be charged any application fees to serve in a security service, only for 90% to be disqualified.
Charging your citizens seeking employment? These public institutions have annual budgets and must entail cost of recruitment.
The practice is extremely wrong on all fronts and nothing but plain exploitation!!”
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