President Mahama Directs Expansion Of Security Services Recruitment.

President John Dramani Mahama has held a high-level meeting with the Heads of Security

Agencies, Minister for the Interior and Acting Minister for Defence on the ongoing security services recruitment process.

Following a briefing on the process, the President has directed that the number of men and women

to be recruited to the various security agencies should be increased from twenty-thousand

(20,000) to forty thousand (40,000) over a four year period.

The President has also directed the Heads of the Security Agencies to ensure transparency and fairness in the recruitment process.

Present at the meeting were the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the President, Senior Presidential

Advisor on Governmental Affairs, National Security Coordinator, Inspector General of Police,

Director General Prisons, Director General Fire Service, Comptroller-General of the Ghana

Immigration Service and the Director General of the Narcotics Control Commission.

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