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 VIDEO: Watch The First Ever Fashion Show In Africa To Hit 1 Million Views On Youtube Orange Culture Presents The Look Book For The Autumn Winter 2017 Collection ‘PRETTY’ 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 #BeautyOfTheWeek: Proud Jamaican Influencer Anthena, Scoops Our BOTW of the Week With Her... Fashion Week Organizers from Across Africa Assemble in Ethiopia to Forge A Cohesive... Leading Ghanaian Menswear Brand ‘Kustom Looks’ Takes Over ‘All Africa Games 2023’ With... #OOTD: Berla Mundi Serves Haute Couture As She Shakes The Net With A... VIDEO: Arisar (Barbados) @ Accra Fashion Week 2023 VIDEO: Wig Wearing Black Mom Hospitalized With Horrific Skin Reaction & Illness After... A Detailed Insight Into Ethiopia’s TechStitched Fashion Program & The Participating Fashion Weeks... Cornrows With Cowry Shells: A Red Carpet Show Stopper & A Modern Twist... PICS: To Much Glamour; Check Out Bonang Matheba, Swanky & More At The... AFI Reschedules Cape Town Fashion Week For 2024 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.