The Ghana Immigration Service has denied making secret recruitments this year as claimed by the Minority in Parliament recently.
Apart from the Ghana Immigration Service, the Minority on Wednesday, 30 October 2019, also alleged that even though in 2019, there has been no advertisement whatsoever for recruitment into the Police Service and no applications have been received or processed in the e-recruitment portal of the Police Service which can be accessed online, certain individuals have been invited and are being taken through medical screening for purposes of getting them recruited.
“The story is not any different with the Prisons and Immigration Services. Both Services, like the Police, have not advertised for recruitment in 2019. In the particular case of the Immigration Service, we are reliably informed that they have secretly invited mainly cronies of the NPP and taken them through screening and medical examination at the Prisons Training School for recruitment. In all, the Immigration Service is hoping to secretly recruit 700 junior officers and 150 senior officers,” the Minority said in a statement signed by Mr James Agalga, MP, Builsa North and Ranking Member, Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament.
Responding to the allegation, the management of GIS said in a statement that it “wishes to state that the Service 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 its 2017/2018 recruitment exercise”, GIS explained.
Accordingly, it said, “The exercise is being conducted through a financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance to the Ghana Immigration Service”, adding: “This current screening exercise is, therefore, a continuation of the previous recruitment drive to exhaust the backlog of qualified applicants in our database”.
