THE GPS, GIS E-RECRUITMENT APPLICATION - A PLOY TO "CONFUFRUSTRATE" APPLICANTS.

How some applicants pay for the mistakes of bank tellers.

It is amusing how applicants, who are assured of guaranteed qualification for recruitment into each of the security forces, are disqualified right at the time of filling the online application forms, even before submission is made. This confuses and frustrates, "confufrustrates", most applicants especially those who know officers, inside each of the services, whose heights are way shorter than that of the first gentleman of the Republic, who most of the applicants are taller than, but are disqualified for not meeting the required height of 173cm.

Publishing the requirements on the bases of online recruitment into all security forces in Ghana is short of detailing requisite information about applicants who spend their hard-earned money to purchase e-vouchers for online registrations, only to be disqualified by an untested electronic interface, designed to do nothing else but ensure more applicants are disqualified right at start of the online registrations. 

I base this, allegation or whatever anyone prefers to call it, on the simple fact that details of required information about potential applicants are withheld from the public, which is nothing short of a mass fraud and duping. If you truly do not want people to spend their money on acquiring vouchers for an application they know they do not have all information required for the registration to apply, I am certain nobody will wake up earlier than usual everyday, form long queues for such a headless exercise. 

On the other hand, ensuring that the right applicants are given the chance to apply and get recruited into our national security agencies, the right information, detailed to least core, would be put out so that everybody is aware of further basic biographic data requirements before making the decision to go purchase the e-vouchers to apply.

Most of these disqualifications do not even come by wrong information or the inability of some applicants to obtain required educational qualifications. Majority of applicants are stressed out, the minute they see the demands for some basic bio-data and personal information about themselves. Things such as Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results number and name of school. 

I am not against the fact that these are later required in the application process, rather my heart bleeds for the way one would have to put his or her application process on hold, agitated, and jog back home to ransack their homes, turn everything upside down, looking for something they least expect to be part of an online registration process, simply because ONLY West African Senior High Schools Certificates Examination (WASSCE) results or higher, heights and co, are the ONLY stated principal primary requirements for the recruitment qualifications.

One great stand-out essence of communication is for the information disseminated to be clearly understood by all parties involved especially the party to whom the information is channeled, but this does not seem to be the case with our people here in the country. It is more like those who are in position to set and disseminate such information do not care about those to whom such information are intended and relayed. 

The importance is placed on the budgeted revenues more, than the people from whom such funds are expected. This contributes massively to the gross "confusfrustrations" (confusion and frustrations) and its high rate of increase, on daily basis with this online application process.

I am putting this out directly to the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to review their communication technical men and women to put out resolute information to the least of details required from applicants, thereby informing potential applicants with enough information, before they go in for the various e-vouchers for their chosen disciplines. If this is left to be as is, while recruitment is in session, more people would be forced to provide "manufactured" bio-data about themselves, which would result in more applicants getting disqualified or dismissed even when some find their ways into the services through the 'backdoors'. 

It is without shame, a public knowledge, how these backdoors operate and those who went into our security organisations through them, know very well that some of us are aware, even right at the day of screening. This takes various forms, in an instance, where you could even be the first person present on the day of screening, but thousand names, or more, would be mentioned without any of such names being responded to by any one applicant present. We know where, and how, those names got on those lists and this year, we can only expect increment in such figures coming in through the backdoors, due to the fact that this ruling government promised more employment opportunities to desperate near-destitute "confufrustrated" Ghanaians that, this recruitment processes seem to be one of the most opportune, and most reliable, ways to deflate the concurrent upward rate of unemployment pandemic, on our hands.

Ghana needs to rise up from the gutters of shady dealings so that the average Ghanaian does not go into seeking employment, with the notion of "who you know" as his or her only chance of securing a job. For the sake of the sacred sanctity of God, it is over 60 long excruciating years after the declaration of "Self Rule", but we still cannot boast of one sure way of seeking and securing decent employment, genuinely, without somebody, or a group of persons, having a percentage share in your monthly salary which will never even reach your pocket before it is completely exhausted, and you still be in debt up to the neck.

If we refer to this sad situation as "Ghana working again", with a straight face, I am certain that the personified figure we always refer to, without conscience, as "Satan" or the "Devil", is no less a sadist than ourselves, especially those people who are in possession of the paddles to steer the course of this nation in the right direction.

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