Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail 1.5K Ghana’s Immigration Service will automatically disqualify women with bleached skin, stretch marks and surgery cuts from its ongoing recruitment process, the agency’s spokesman told BBC Pidgin. Michael Amoako-Attah said the selection criteria was necessary to ensure the staff’s safety and wellbeing: If you have bleached skin or surgical marks on your body during training exercises you may incur some bleeding and that wouldn’t help or augur well for the safety of the applicant, because we have seen it before and as much as possible we should avoid re-occurrence.” More Articles You Would Love Tanzanian Designer Mustafa Hassanali Launches The MUUNGANO collection “Alvin Bragg Is Doing Joe Biden’s Dirty Work” Trump Reacts To His Indicted With This Statement Men sporting dreadlocks will also be excluded. The government body says it had received 84,637 applications to fill 500 posts. It says 47,477 have been shortlisted for the second stage. Applicants had to pay 50 Ghanaian Cedi ($11; £8) which earned the agency $880,000. A Twitter user has called it extortion and appealed for President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene: Your Excellency @NAkufoAddo kindly pay attention to what the Ghana Immigration Service has done. They sold out 84,000 forms and are only recruiting 500. Is that fair?? Extorting GHS4.2m from the Graduate Unemployed Youth with ease.I humbly seek answers ! — Benjamin Lumumba (@SikaDwumfour) January 4, 2018 This is not the first time a state agency has discriminated against women based on their appearance. Other security agencies, such as the armed forces, have disqualified women for having what they considered to be big breasts and buttocks. Some MPs in Ghana have urged disqualified applicants to take their complaints to court. Ghana Raccism fashionghana immigration servicestretch marks Share FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinWhatsappTelegramEmail Nana Tamakloe Founder of FashionGHANA.com and Accra Fashion Week. I'm grateful you visited, I hope you share, subscribe and share your comments or opinions below. More For You #fGSTYLE: Tips On How To Color Coding With Your Lover; The African Way #OOTD: Simply Tacha Is Goes Beyond Fierce In Her Medlin Boss Red Fringed... Looking For Ghanaian Kente Bridal Inspiration? Look No Further Nanice Gorgeous AI Wedding... #fGSTYLE: From The Church To The Lounge; Treat Your Sundays With These Trendy... #OOTD: Queen Of Afrobeats Yemi Alade Proves She’s Still The Queen Of African... #BeautyOfTheWeek: Check Out Stunning Images Of SA’s Vitiligo Super Star Yolanda Monyai From... VIDEOS: Tunis Fashion Week 2024 Ended With A Bang, Watch Snippets & See... “There Is A Risk Europe Could Die” Macron Speaks Shortly After Losing Control... PICS: “A Bald Woman Knows Her Kingdom” Gorgeous Top African Model Ayen Monica... #OOTD: Rutie B Hits Us With A Perfectly Stylish ‘Break-Out-The-Norm’ Top & Down... Leave a Comment Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.