Dear Armed Forces,
First, never use the word "unexpected" in your communique. This is an era defined by data and predictive analytics, and such a word, especially from an Intelligence Agency is a mark of gross incompetence. That word must never appear in your vocabulary again.
Now, to the matter of recruitment. You are a force of just about 16,000 personnel, many of whom are currently underutilized. Yet somehow, you managed to sell hundreds of thousands of application forms. How? And more importantly, why? This leads to my second point:
NO MONEY SHOULD EVER BE MADE DIRECTLY FROM A JOBSEEKER, worst of all, by a State agency. That is ethically indefensible.
What you’ve created appears less like a recruitment exercise and more like a commercial enterprise. If this is indeed a business, then you must be held accountable for it.
Let me not belabor the obvious but you must know that the sight of hundreds of thousands of citizens stranded on the streets, disrupting livelihoods on a Wednesday morning, without prior notice to residents, is a serious display of disregard. The Military must not be an instrument of intimidation. You are entrusted with the protection of this territory. That mandate must be upheld with dignity and discipline. No Ghanaian citizen should ever lose their life due to leadership failure, especially within the military.
Now, the solution.
Cancel this recruitment process entirely. Replace it with a rolling, fully online system governed by clear, transparent criteria. Applicants should be randomly assigned to “Military Candidate Assistants” who must never have physical contact with candidates until the official physical assessment stage. This current process is inefficient and disgraceful. End it immediately.
My sincere condolences to the families of the six.
Next post will address the government.
TV adverts in Ghana were different level back then.
There were so many iconic adverts on TV.
Here is a thread of some of the funniest and most iconic adverts on TV 🇬🇭
1. Goodnight Mosquito coil. This had to be part of everyone’s Favorite 😂
To commemorate Ghana's 67th Independence Day, here are 67 movies from Ghana to watch.
1. Azali (2018)
2. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
3. The Burial of Kojo (2018)
4. Keteke (2017)
5. Sankofa (1993)
6. No Time to Die (2021)
7. Sidechic Gang (2018)
8. Perfect Picture: 10 Years Later (2019)
9. Adams Apples series (2011-2012)
10. A Northern Affair (2014)
11. The Devil Between My Legs (2011)
12. House of Gold (2013)
13. Baby Thief (2021)
14. Contract (2012)
15. Silence of the Gods (2006)
16. Leila Djansi's Sinking Sands (2011)
17. Ties That Bind (2011)
18. Inale (2010)
19. Devil in the Detail (2014)
20. I Sing of a Well (2009)
21. Heritage Africa (1989)
22. A Sting in a Tale (2009)
23. Double Cross (2014)
24. Chelsea (2010)
25. 30 Days in Atlanta (2014)
26. Black Star (2005)
27. Six Hours to Christmas (2010)
28. Shampaign series (2016-2017)
29. Princess Tyra (2007)
30. Potomanto (2013)
31. Cheaters Book 1 & 2 series (2016)
32. Ama K. Abebrese's Beasts of No Nation (2015)
33. Love Brewed in the African Pot (1981)
34. I Told You So (2019)
35. Gold Coast Lounge (2019)
36. Broni Wawu (2017)
37. Yellow Cassava (2020)
38. Friday Night (2020)
39. The Love of AA (2017)
40. Princess Tyra 2 (2019)
41. Silent Night (2017)
42. Kiss Me if You Can (2003)
43. A Sting in the Tale (2009)
44. Love or Something Like That (2014)
45. Passion of the Soul (2018)
46. Children of the Mountain (2016)
47. Reasons (2020)
48. Purple (2017)
49. Away Bus (2019)
50. Number 12: When Greed and Corruption Become the Norm (2018)
51. The King is Mine (2012)
52. Adam's Apple: Christmas in Ghana (2011)
53. Checkmate (2019)
54. Family Album (2016)
55. Shattered Lives (2017)
56. Deadly Voyage (1996)
57. The Perfect Picture (2009)
58. The Price (2015)
59. Last Night (2018)
60. Happiness is a Four-Letter Word (2016)
61. A Letter from Adam (2014)
62. No Man's Land (2019)
63. Stalemate (2018)
64. A Sting in the Tale 2 (2014)
65. The Cursed Ones (2015)
66. Leila Djansi's Like Cotton Twines (2016)
67. Victim of Love (2014)
Happy Independence Day 🇬🇭