Security service recruitment: 48% of applicants who reached medical stage were females — Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the implementation of Ghana’s Affirmative Action Law.

According to the President, women made up 48 percent of applicants who progressed to the medical stage of the recent security services recruitment exercise.

Speaking during his ongoing Resetting Ghana Tour in the Savannah Region on Saturday, May 23, Mr. Mahama said the near gender balance in the recruitment process demonstrates progress in promoting inclusiveness in state institutions.

“I’m happy to say that we have the affirmative action law, and the affirmative action law gives us the benchmarks that we must achieve in terms of providing opportunities for women,” he said.

The President noted that many of the female applicants who reached the medical stage came from the Savannah, Northern and North East regions.

He further disclosed that most of the women preferred joining the Ghana National Fire Service, Ghana Immigration Service and the Ghana Prisons Service rather than the police service.

“For those who qualified to get to the medical stage, 48% of them were women, and 52% were men, and so it means that women have the opportunity almost as good as men to be able to get employed in these agencies,” he stated.

Mr. Mahama assured the public that his administration would continue to create more opportunities for women as part of efforts to promote gender equality and national development.

Meanwhile, the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, has announced that results of the medical stage of the recruitment process will soon be released.