Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery has refuted claims by the Minority that government is recruiting some 1,800 persons into the Ghana Police, Armed Forces and Immigration Services.
According to the minister, training schools have only asked recruits who passed to report after facilities were shut down due to the Covid-19.
There is no ongoing recruitment. There was recruitment where the processes were complied with before the Covid-19 pandemic. So what happened at the time was that some of the trainees had reported to school whole others were on the way but because of the pandemic the schools were closed down,” he said.
He explained that, “recently under the auspices of the Presidential taskforce for Covid-19, there has been a roadmap on the reopening of schools starting with final years in the universities. Subsequently, it came to senior high schools and now junior high schools. In that programme, the training schools for the security agencies were involved. So those successful candidates from the recruitment which took place before the pandemic were asked to start reporting.”
The Minority in Parliament had alleged that government had recruited 1,800 NPP supporters in the security agencies.
“The last time the public witnessed a public advert in accordance with the constitution and the public services requirements and regulation was in 2017. So we are asking how come in 2018, 2019 and 2020 there is no official public recruitment advertised giving notice to Ghanaian citizens to prepare themselves for recruitment into these important state institutions and agencies,” Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu told the press.
Source: GhanaFeed.com