{"id":77835,"date":"2025-07-21T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=77835"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:32:46","slug":"46-of-army-trainees-risk-withdrawal-over-eligibility-requirements-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=77835","title":{"rendered":"46% of army trainees risk withdrawal over eligibility requirements \u2013 Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Minister for Defence, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, has revealed that nearly half of army trainees currently undergoing military training may face withdrawal after an internal audit uncovered significant breaches in entry requirements.<\/p>\n

Addressing the Government Accountability Series on Monday, July 21, Dr Boamah disclosed that an audit of 452 army trainees in the Ghana Armed Forces uncovered that 46% of them did not meet the eligibility criteria for enlistment.<\/p>\n

The findings relate to the Regular Career Course 64 and 65, as well as the Short Service Commission Course 62 of the Ghana Army.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of 452, 210 did not meet the eligibility test\u2014representing 46%,\u201d Dr Boamah said.<\/p>\n

He further revealed that for Regular Career Course 64, currently in training, 34 recruits were found to have bypassed one or more critical stages of the enlistment process.<\/p>\n

Despite the breaches, the Minister said the government has decided against immediately sending the affected trainees home due to the potential national security implications.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was difficult sending them home since they had been in training for almost one year. Releasing 34 well-trained, energetic youth who had endured military training in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous West Africa sub-region\u2014where free-floating weapons and ammunition abound\u2014can have severe consequences,\u201d Dr Boamah explained.<\/p>\n

Instead, the trainees have been directed to submit the necessary documentation or qualifications they initially failed to present.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been directed to fulfil all criteria\u2014that\u2019s the 34,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

However, the Minister made it clear that those who fail to meet the requirements will be dismissed from the programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they fail to meet these requirements, they will be released from training,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

Dr Boamah reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to upholding discipline, transparency, and meritocracy in the recruitment process of the security services. He stressed that the integrity of the Ghana Armed Forces must be preserved at all times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are committed to ensuring that recruitment into the Ghana Armed Forces remains credible and beyond reproach,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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