Video: Tears as Immigration Service disqualified applicants over height, others

Dozens of Ghanaian youth who throng the Ghana Immigration Service’s recruitment at Kumasi in the  the Ashanti Region were turned away.

That JoyNews Eratus Asare Donkor report on Wednesday, October 27, tears flowed as some applicants were turned away for varied reasons.

According to him, one of the major factors for their disqualification was height.

Male applicants seeking enlistment into the Immigration Service were to meet a minimum height requirement of 1m.73cm height to qualify to the next stage of the process.

While their female counterpart on the other hand, required a minimum of 1m.63cm to progress.

Scores of applicants, the report said were also disqualified by officials of the Ghana Immigration Service for multiple piercing and tattoos.

No tattoos, piercing, others

Speaking to the media, Chief Superintendent in Charge of Intelligence,  Alfred Fiifi Ocran said the service has its own standards and every applicant must meet those to qualify to join.

He explained applicants with tattoos, excessive stretch marks, surgical marks, multiple piercing in the case of female and piercing by male does not qualify to join the service.

Chief Superintendent Ocran said the service place importance on its standard and that was responsible for the disqualifications.

“There should be no piercing for males, that one will automatically disqualify you because that part of the standard that were set. For female there should be one piecing, if it is more than one you will be disqualified.  With tattoo, visibly we will disqualify you both male and female”.

“You know the uniform has our own language and their basic standard that we set. No tattoo, no piercing, no excessive stretch marks or scar as well as surgical scars,” he said.

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Immigration Service recruitment

The Ghana Immigration Service on Monday, October 25 through to Wednesday, October 27  begun recruitment into the service across the country.

The process saw thousands of job seekers throng various designated centres across the country to be enlisted into the service.

In Accra, the El-Wak Sports Stadium held thousands of job seeking hoping to serve the country.

Qualified applicant of the recruitment process are expected to write an aptitude test on Saturday, October 30 to proceed to the next stage.

Source: GhanaPlus.com