Government Recruiting Into Ghana Police, Other Security Services With 11k Slots Up For Grabs
- Reports indicate the government is set to recruit 11,000 persons into various security agencies
- The Chronicle reported that the process started on Monday, July 8, 2024, and financial clearance has already been given
- Security expert Adib Saani noted to YEN.com.gh that the main concern for the state was the quality of recruits
Reports indicate that the government is set to recruit some 11,000 persons into various security agencies under the interior ministry.
The recruitment is to clear a backlog of applicants to the agencies.
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The Chronicle reported that the process started on Monday, July 8, 2024.
The paper reported that financial clearance had already been given to recruit the new personnel.
There are not expected to be any advertisements in the national dailies calling on qualified applicants.
The Interior Ministry ordered the Prisons Service to recruit 1,500 personnel, the Ghana Immigration Service to recruit 3,000 personnel, and the Ghana Police Service to recruit 4,000 new officers. The Ghana National Fire Service and the Narcotics Control Commission were also asked to recruit 2000 and 500 personnel.
If the current 11,000 applicants are successfully recruited, the total number of recruitments since 2017 will be a record 26,814 under one administration.
Concern over quality of recruits
Security expert Adib Saani noted to YEN.com.gh that the timing was not as big a concern as compared to the quality of recruits.
“We are going to an election, and once you are recruited, no matter what channel you go through to be recruited, you are supposed to exercise the greatest deal of professionalism in the discharge of your duties.”
This reported process has been criticised, with the Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga calling it a scandal.
The Minority in Parliament recently accused the Akufo-Addo government of recruiting party footsoldiers into the security services.
They believe the secret recruitment is to influence the upcoming December 7 general elections.
The minority leader said majority MPs had been given 30 slots each to fill with party loyalists from their constituencies.
Minister for Interior Henry Quartey refuted the Minority’s assertion and noted that there was no advertisement for new recruitment because there is still a backlog of recruits from previous years waiting to be cleared.
Mahama accuses Akufo-Addo of stacking the judiciary with NPP judges
YEN.com.gh reported that former president John Mahama has accused President Akufo-Addo of stacking the judiciary with judges sympathetic to the New Patriotic Party.
Mahama thus urged lawyers sympathetic to the National Democratic Congress to consider becoming judges to balance the perceived partisanship.
Speaking at the third Annual Lawyers Conference of the NDC on September 2, 2023, the former president said President Akufo-Addo was trying to avoid accountability after leaving office.
Proofread by Berlinda Entsie, journalist and copy editor at YEN.com.gh
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