The Interior Ministry has announced its decision to advertise the recruitment of individuals who applied online for enlistment into the security services in 2021 and 2022.

This follows a consensus reached between the majority and minority caucuses of Parliament after a closed session with the Minister of Interior, Henry Quartey.

The Minority had threatened to summon the Minister over allegations of secret recruitment of a backlog of 11,000 applicants into the security services.

Addressing journalists after a meeting with lawmakers on the matter in Parliament, the minister said, “The recruitment exercises for the security agencies under the Ministry of Interior will be advertised with a clause for those who went online to apply in 2021 and 2022. And for some reason, have still not been able to go through the process. But I must be quick to add and bring clarity that no money must be paid.

“The security and intelligence agencies and for that matter, the government does not control what we call medicals. If you go out there as a private citizen to do medicals, you have to pay for the medical fee, that is not the doing of the security and intelligence agencies.”