Saddick Adams, a veteran sports journalist and broadcaster with Angel TV, has once again reiterated that no Ghanaian should be charged for an application fee to serve in a security service.
According to Saddick Adams, the security services have an annual budget which must entail the cost of recruitment.
He added that the practice of the Security Service demanding that Ghanaian applicants pay an application fee is plain exploitation.
In a post on X, Saddick Adams 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!!”.
His comments follow the Minister for the Interior, who had 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.
Speaking to the media, Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka stated, “So, if you do that, are you fair to the average Ghanaian? Remember, all these stages, apart from buying the voucher to be able to apply, body selection does not require payment; documentation does not require payment; the aptitude test does not require payment, but medicals will require payment.
“And in order not to shortchange innocent young people, it is better you put in a mechanism that will reduce the number drastically, because once a person goes to pay, I mean, I know the military, when they were done, the medicals alone were about 1,600.
“We are also doing even mental health assessments, and we’re also doing drug tests in addition. Yes, I know the deputy, and I were just in a meeting, and we’re insisting that despite all these additions, the price will still not be very high, looking at the numbers that we are talking about.
“Are you going to allow over 400,000 people to go and do medicals when you know you have space for 5,000? How fair is it to the people? So, you need to devise a method where you slow down the number and have some reasonable figures. So, the pass mark was put at 65, because that was what they were told before they even started the exams,” he said.
Meanwhile, 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.
See the post below:
I insist that NO Ghanaian should be charged any application fees to serve in a security service only for 90% to be disqualified.
— Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) March 11, 2026
Charging your citizens seeking employment? These public institutions have annual budgets and must entail cost of recruitment.
The practice is…