The Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, has dismissed allegations by the Minority in Parliament that the Ministry is secretly recruiting personnel into the security services.
Addressing the Parliamentary press corps on Tuesday, 16 July, 2024, Mr. Quartey clarified that recruitment is managed by the security and intelligence agencies, not the Ministry for the Interior.
“For the record, the Ministry for the Interior does not do recruitment. It is the security and intelligence agencies themselves that do that,” Mr. Quartey asserted.
The Minority had threatened to summon Mr. Quartey over reports of 11,000 personnel being recruited into the security services.
Mr. Quartey responded by explaining the Ministry’s stance on the recruitment process.
“Are we saying that we continue to advertise and sell forms to the youth of this country knowing that the number of people that will be eligible may not even be 2000, and we continue to sell forms to them?,” Mr. Quartey quizzed.
“This is why we are saying that let us give the opportunity to those who have these forms so that they can go through the process as Ghanaians. If they are able to meet the eligibility criteria, then they are recruited,” the Interior Minister noted.
He emphasised that no new recruitment had commenced and reiterated the Ministry’s role as a policy driver.
“I have heard a lot of things out there, but for the record, the Ministry of the Interior does not do recruitment. We are policy drivers. It is the security and intelligence agencies that do the recruitment, and they have criteria for people to meet and the number of people they need. Then the Ministry of Finance will give the approval. Once that approval is given, they go through the process and then they engage,” the Interior Minister clarified.
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