The Ghanaian Immigration Service (GIS) has come under scrutiny after applications were sold to 84,000 individuals for only 500 positions available at the governmental agency. The application cost was 50 Cedis ($10.97). To add insult to injury, now applicants are being disqualified for having tattoos, stretch marks, bow legs, and bleached skin; in an effort to alleviate the gigantic employment pool.
Superintendent Michael Amoako-Attah who also serves as the agency’s public relations officer stated “The kind of work we do, it’s strenuous and the training is such that if you have bleached skin or surgical marks on your body during training exercises, you may incur some bleedings.”
This is an outrageous way of conducting business. The conundrum here is the fact that thousands were duped into thinking they had an opportunity for gainful employment when the individual or individuals who collected the funds were the ‘winner.’ Some may argue that stunts like this are what encourage the influx of corruption and scams. It’s difficult to stay on the straight and narrow when doing so can leave you jobless and distrustful.
This is a call for a major governmental reform. I understand this will take time and will receive backlash from many nonetheless it is needed. The youth are the ones greatly and negatively affected.
What you’re making of this spectacle on Twitter:
Welcome to Ghana..immigration service charges 50gh per voucher and has 42000 people….ghc4.2million gone…?…just laidat…..we all we go be curropt some…
— Seg (@bra_imah) January 7, 2018
Bleached skin I understand but stretch marks??? Kanti what is this?! Hayi Ghana Immigration Service. Get yourself together!
— Sello (@SelloJ2J) January 9, 2018
About 84,000 applied for Ghana immigration service recruitment and paid Ghc50 for a form
84,000 x 50 =Ghc4,200,000
500 people to be recruited & an average pay of Ghc1000
Ghc4,200000 ÷ 500 = 8400
8400 ÷ 1000 = 8.4 months
Applicants gave GIS 8.4 months pay for the 500 recruits
— Black Chinese (@raphael_amuri) January 9, 2018
All our very athletic footballers with bow legs won’t make the cut for Ghana Immigration Service because
— Michael F. Quansah (@koasempa) January 9, 2018
The Ghana Immigration Service is utterly disgraceful… terrible interview on BBC right now ..
— Michael F. Quansah (@koasempa) January 9, 2018
‘Discriminatory, Sexist & Unethical Recruitment 101’: #Ghana Immigration Service bans recruits over stretch marks and bleached skin. #HRM #Recruitment #Ethics #Gender #TROP915 https://t.co/cm7y4cXGcG
— Paul Marsden (@MarsdenPa) January 9, 2018
What’s this story I’m hearing about Ghana Immigration service rejecting people with stretch marks….
Just when you thought you’ve seen it all…..
— Joe (@jakuuire) January 8, 2018
Ghana Immigration Service be the real ‘fraud boys’.
— K W A M Z ™ (@KwameLastBaby) January 8, 2018
Mr. Tourism, as a citizen and not a spectator, Ghana immigration service SCAM of selling 84,637 forms for GHS 50.00 to recruit 500 applicants nationwide is a matter of concern. #OKFMCitizens @AbeikuSantana @Okfmdrivetime
— ISAIAH SIKAYE (@IsaiahSikaye) January 8, 2018
Welcome to Ghana..immigration service charges 50gh per voucher and has 42000 people….ghc4.2million gone…?…just laidat…..we all we go be curropt some…
— Seg (@bra_imah) January 7, 2018
