The Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, has denied claims that the ministry is undertaking a covet recruitment into the Ghana Police Service and other security agencies.
This comes after the minority in parliament accused the government of secretly recruiting people without advertisement.
The minority has also threatened to summon Mr Quartey to answer to the house following the alleged recruitment of 11,000 personnel into the police.
But speaking to the media, the Interior Minister said the security services are only engaging people from a backlog of applicants over the years to ascertain their eligibility.
“We are 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.
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“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 said.
He further clarified that it is not the responsibility of the ministry to recruit but the security agencies themselves.
“So our position is to say clearly that we have not started recruitment. 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,” he stressed.