The Ghana Immigration Service has denied allegations of ongoing secret recruitment of personnel into the Service without recourse to laid down procedures.
The opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) Minority in Parliament which made the allegation at a Press conference in Accra on Wednesday claimed that the government led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is secretly recruiting followers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) into the security agencies, an act they considered, is contrary to the elephant family’s avowed commitment to transparency in the recruitment process.
The NDC urged the government to institute measures to root out cronyism and nepotism with respect to recruitment into the security agencies.
But the Ghana Immigration Service has stated that it is not conducting any such secret recruitment.
“The truth of the matter is that the Service is currently conducting a screening exercise to select prospective applicants from its backlog of applicants who applied to join the Service during 2017/2018 recruitment exercise.
“Accordingly the exercise is being conducted through a financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance to the Ghana Immigration Service,” a statement signed by Head of Public Affairs, Supt. Michael Amoako-Atta said.
It added: “This current screening is, therefore, a continuation of the previous recruitment drive to exhaust the backlog of qualified applicants in our database.”
Source: Ghana/Kasapafmonline.com/102.5FM
