Ghana’s Immigration Service will automatically disqualify women applicants with stretch marks, bleached skin and surgery cuts from its ongoing recruitment process, BBC reports quoting the agency’s spokesman.
Michael Amoako-Attah is reported to have defended the selection criteria, saying it was necessary to ensure staff safety and wellbeing.
“If you have bleached skin or surgical marks on your body during training exercises, you may incur some bleeding and that wouldn’t help or augur well for the safety of the applicant, because we have seen it before and as much as possible we should avoid re-occurrence,” he is quoted to say.
Men who don dreadlocks will also be automatically disqualified from the selection process.
The GIS recruitment process has also come under heavy scrutiny especially from Ghanaian social media users, most of whom have taken issue with a provision that required applicants to pay 50 Ghanaian Cedi ($5; £8) which earned the agency $880,000.
The agency said it some 84,637 people had made applications for the jobs, from which 47,477 were shortlisted, but only has 500 job openings.
Here are some of the reactions on social media;
Due respect to Nana Akuffo Ado kindly pay attention to what the Ghana Immigration Service has done. They sold out 84,000 forms and are only recruiting 500. Is that fair??
— Waga (@iam_oseii) January 5, 2018
Ghana Immigration Service mist be investigated, how can you recruit 500 out of over 84,000 applicants only, why made the good people of Ghana bought the forms? This is corruption.
— Cyril Nartey (@Mackay82685954) January 5, 2018
The ongoing recruitment process into the Ghana Immigration Service is not right. Reflects poorly on the Administration. Why application fees & why accept such oversubscription? Please redeem this appalling image.
— Frederick J. Kwame Banson (@BansonJoe) January 5, 2018
