As she joined the long queue at the General Post Office just to secure a form to apply for enlistment into the Ghana Fire and Rescue Service, she had high hopes. More prospective applicants kept coming to the venue and as the situation threatened to get out of control, the Police had to be called in to maintain law and order. But before that was done the pushing and shoving had gone on for some time, and she had her arm injured by broken glass from one of the windows on the premises as the building could not withstand the pressure. In the end, this poor unemployed lady graduate together with many others had to go home with their hopes dashed as they could not get the forms.
This similar situation was replicated at the General Post Offices in the regional capitals all over Ghana on this day 18th January, 2013. When interviewed by an Accra based radio station, the PRO of the Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service told Ghanaians that they needed only a thousand recruits but decided to send out about twenty thousand forms, so that they select the best amongst the many applicants. What sort of hypocrisy is that? I would say emphatically that all those unemployed graduates who wasted their time and energy to queue in the hot sun for the forms should forget about getting recruited into the Ghana Fire and Rescue Service, because the thousand recruits have already been chosen, they did not bother to queue at the various General Post Offices throughout the country.
This is Ghana for you and we know how recruitment into the various government agencies are done. If you don’t know anyone there, be it a relative or a friend or you are not prepared to part with some amounts of money, you better not waste your time and energy going for the forms. These are some of the struggles an unemployed graduate in Ghana has to go through after his or her tertiary education. But as we keep on trusting in the Almighty God, we shall surely overcome this bumpy journey. I wish all unemployed graduates including myself good luck in their job searches, never give up.
