The Minority in Parliament has called on the Ministry of the Interior to reimburse about GH¢113 million paid by unsuccessful applicants in the recent recruitment into the country’s security services.

Their demand follows comments by Interior Minister Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, who revealed that over 105,000 candidates progressed to the medical screening stage of the exercise, although only 5,000 vacancies are available for eventual recruitment.

Speaking to the media, the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, criticised the process and alleged that the exercise had placed an unfair financial burden on applicants.

He called for a probe into the matter and insisted that those who did not make it through the process should be refunded the fees they paid

“Already, we have a national security threat and unemployment on our hands. You promised them jobs. You didn’t add any conditions.

“Then you turn around, you politically expand the age limit from twenty-five to thirty-five, signaling that there is more room and more access, more financial clearance, which was a lie.

“You knew from the very beginning you were recruiting only 5,000, and yet you did all this to lure half a million people, took their money, milked them GH¢113 million cedis and over, only to turn around yesterday, after you have knocked them out by technology and internet disruptions from the aptitude test,” he said.