According to MyNewsGh.com, the Ghana Immigration Service’s recruitment process has been unfair to applicants from all over the country.
According to our sources, despite the fact that several Ghanaian graduates applied for officer positions, those who qualified for officer positions were forced to join the army as Recruits.
No explanation was given to these individuals as to why the service made such a judgment.
Applicants were given the option of abandoning their university degrees and HND certificates in favor of using their Senior High School diplomas, or forfeiting the opportunity for those who were interested.
“I received a phone call saying that I had qualified after the exams and that I needed to come in for medicals.” We were told that we would have to give up our degrees and enter the service with our SHS certificates when we went for our medicals. This is me, a Master’s degree holder who must apply for the service using my credentials. So, after I finish my master’s degree, they tell me to finish my degree as well and enter with a SHS certificate. This is alarming. “I believe the Ghanaian people have been treated unfairly by the Immigration Service,” one candidate informed this news portal.
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Some applicants who seem not to have enough choices agreed to the option given them by the Immigration Service although they bought forms for the Cadet.
Worrying, however, is the fact that after the screening exercise, the Immigration Service has failed to communicate with their publics concerning the outcome of the examinations.
The Service has closed down its recruitment portal and has kept applicants in the dark without any statement to the effect that they are done with the recruitment process.
The recruitment process for the various security services has become very worrying such that security analyst Adib Saani believes it might be problematic for the country’s security.
For years on end, issues of police officers conniving with criminals has come up for discussion. One of the major causes of “good cop gone rogue” phenomenon is the result of the caliber and quality of men recruited. If you recruit without exercising due diligence and rather rely on protocol lists, that could be the result.
Years back, some recruits after going through almost all of the police training were asked to go home because the certificates they submitted were fake. If we can’t ascertain the authenticity of a mere certificate, how much backgrounds can we conduct?
After over 100,000 young people applied, some were dropped during the fitness checks. That was televised for all to see. But after that stage, things began to look murky. The exams process including the grading mode appeared shady.
In the spirit of transparency, raw scores should be published. Ghanaians deserve to know the basis on which those who didn’t pass the exams were dropped.
We can’t allow protocol to take precedence over merit. When we recruit the wrong people into our security services, it puts the security of the state in a precarious situation.
Adib Saani
Security Analyst/Exe. Dir. Jatikay Centre for Human Security and Peace Building
