Accra, Jan. 9, - The Ghana
Immigration Service (GIS) has stated that it was not the intention of
management to cash in on the recruitment process especially as stories on
social media seems to portray.
It said the process of the
recruitment was not peculiar to the GIS, but a process used by all the Security
and educational institutions.
A release issued to the Ghana
News Agency on Tuesday in Accra, it said “Indeed the Human Resource requirement
practices will allow for a large pool of prospective applicants in a
recruitment drive such as ours to select the best in terms of education, experience,
physique and other expertise that will be require”.
It stated that “inherent in the
requirements and process were restrictions to regulate and limit the number of
applicants, such as age, height and even the period for the sale of e-voucher
was also limited. Yet we had applicants who did not meet the basic requirements
but went ahead to purchase the vouchers.”
It stated that the GIS has taken
notice of the news making rounds in the media about monies generated from the
sale of its recruitment e-vouchers for recruitment into the service, and
management of the service would wish to make issues clear.
It said the Ministry of Finance
last year gave clearance to the GIS to recruit 500 eligible Ghanaians into the
service. Management immediately set up a committee to come out with modalities
for the recruitment process.
It said following from this, an
advert was placed in the National Dailies setting out the requirements for the
recruitment. The GCB Bank limited was contracted to be the sales point for the
sale of e-vouchers across all their branches nationwide.
It stated that sale of application
forms was not new, since it has been the practice in previous recruitment
exercise since 2012.
According to the release the cost
of this year’s application e-vouchers was reduced from GH₵100.00 to GH₵50.00 as compared to the previous recruitment in 2016 upon the
directive of government to all security agencies under the Ministry of the
Interior.
It said Trybnet, a software
developer was contracted to design an e-recruitment system that would help the
Service conduct a very free, transparent and fair exercise, and the Business
School of the University of Ghana was contracted to set questions for the
aptitude test.
The release stated that
management was to give each eligible Ghanaian an equal and fair chance of
applying to join the GIS and in doing so to select the best among the pool of
eligible applicants.
It indicated that at the end of
the sales, a total of 83,539 vouchers were sold out of which a total of 47,477
applicants qualified.
According to the release the cost
of the e-voucher was to cater for the service of the GCB Bank, the software
developer and other administrative activities, adding that the other charges
were for the hiring of screening venues, examination halls, ambulances,
contracting sanitation companies to clean up both the examination and screening
centres, provision of food and water for the screening teams and applicants
among others across all the 10 regions.
It said management of the GIS
therefore assures the general public that every money collected was well
accounted for and would be judiciously used for the intended purpose.
GNA
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