Over sixteen thousand unemployed youth from Greater Accra Region have gathered on the El Walk Stadium in Accra undergoing a recruitment process to be enrolled in the Ghana Immigration Service GIS.
In total, about 84,000 people applied to be employed across the country. But according to Immigration Service, only 500 are expected to be selected to join the Service nationwide.
Currently, Ghana’s unemployment has reached alarming levels as thousands of graduates pass out from the universities each year.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Immigration Service on Wednesday cautioned the public to be wary of fraudsters parading themselves as officials of the Service in the ongoing recruitment exercise.
The Head of Public Affairs at the Immigration Service, Superintendent Michael Amoako-Attah, who spoke to journlaists, said some people are trying to take advantage of the ongoing process in order to defraud unsuspecting applicants.
According to him, the Service is no longer accepting applications, hence persons who attempt to sell application vouchers should be reported to the law enforcement agencies.
The Immigration Service’s decision to automate the recruitment process was anchored on the relative success of the process used in recent police and fire service recruitment exercises.
Superintendent Michael Amoako-Attah added that “For those who are qualified, we have their numbers. We have a unique ID number for each qualified applicant. So from the first day they enrolled into our database, we’ve been communicating with them, and they know the source of our information.â€
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