Youth besiege centre for enlistment into military

Tamale, June 21, GNA - More than 2,000 youths besieged a military recruitment centre at the Kaladan Park in Tamale for enlistment into the Ghana Armed Forces. At the end of the five-day exercise at the weekend, 100 of them were selected for the army, and 49 for the airforce for further screening at a later date.

Major Vincent Yao Blege, team leader of the recruitment exercise told the Ghana News Agency that the nation-wide exercises lay emphasis on the selection of tradesmen, technicians and sportsmen and women.

After the first day's selection, 670 young men and women were short-listed and were taken through preliminary medical screening, documentation and body inspection.

Major Blege explained that those, who pass the regional screening, would appear before a central recruitment board in Accra to undergo another exercise for a final list of 700 to be selected for training.

He advised those short listed "to tune themselves up" to meet the military standards since they have to go through an advanced test and interviews among other requirements.