An elderly woman has made an emotional appeal to Sunyani West MP Millicent Amankwaa Yeboah, seeking her assistance in securing employment in the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) for her grandson.
According to the elderly woman, she harvested and sold her garden eggs to get GH¢500 to buy application forms for her grandson to join the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), but he was not selected.
She disclosed that her grandson has completed university but was still unemployed, begging the MP to help him secure a job in the Fire Service.
In the viral video, the elderly woman stated, “I don’t work, and I am also sick. My only grandson is all I have. The last time I harvested my garden eggs, I sold them and got GH¢500. We were told the Fire Service was recruiting, so I gave him the money to buy the forms and go through the recruitment process, but he was not selected. When I heard that you had come here, I wanted to see you. I just need work for my grandson”.
However, the MP responded to the plea, expressing her sympathy for the woman, adding that recruitment into the security services is not entirely within the control of Members of Parliament.
MP Millicent Amankwaa Yeboah stated, “Some of these recruitment processes do not pass through us, and even where there are protocol opportunities, they are very limited. In the meantime, I would advise him to learn a skill and work while he waits for another opportunity. Hopefully, things will work out”.
Meanwhile, the Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has announced that about 1,300 applicants who participated in the recent security services recruitment exercise tested positive for HIV.
According to the Interior Minister, the revelation informed the government’s decision not to send medical results directly to unsuccessful applicants.
He disclosed that there is a need for proper counselling and adherence to international health guidelines.
Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak explained that applicants who fail the medical examination were provided with contact details to enable them to voluntarily seek further information.
Speaking before Parliament’s Public Assurance Committee, the Interior Minister stated, “I remember the recent recruitment we had. I think about 1,300 also were on HIV. Can you imagine sending somebody a result telling the person that you have HIV? That’s not the procedure. The person has to go through some orientation”.
Also, he asserted that several of the medical conditions identified during the screening are treatable.
“Some of the things that we realised are treatable. People need to know and then also get treatment so that subsequent recruitment they could join,” he stated.
He further encouraged unsuccessful applicants to request their medical results, “It may be something minor, it may be something major. Whichever it is, if you get to know, it will be of great interest to you”.
The Interior Minister also disclosed that the government did not contact the HIV applicants directly but had instead provided a channel for them to voluntarily request their results.
“We provided contact for people to call who were interested in knowing why they failed… We are obliged to give them the results, but we can’t send them to you on the phone,” he explained.
Earlier, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak disclosed that over 6,000 applicants were disqualified during the medical screening stage of the ongoing security services recruitment.
Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak detailed that over 100,000 applicants underwent medical examinations as part of the recruitment process.
According to the Interior Minister, the Security Service medical process was expanded beyond the usual physical and laboratory checks.
He disclosed that the test included drug testing and mental health assessments.
The Interior Minister detailed that more than 4,000 applicants failed the drug tests, while about 2,000 others were disqualified on mental health grounds.
Speaking in an interview on Pan African TV on Saturday, May 23, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak disclosed, “We have over 100,000 people who went through the medicals. Because of the large numbers, and because of what we have observed within the services.
We introduced additional checks, including mental health assessments and drug tests. Interestingly, over 4,000 people failed the drug test, and we have over 2,000 who also failed due to mental health conditions,” he said.
Watch the video below:
“I harvested and sold my garden eggs to get GH¢500 to buy application forms for my grandson to join the Ghana National Fire Service, but he was not selected. He has completed university and is unemployed. Please help him secure a job in the Fire Service.”
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