The Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has called for the scrapping of the artificial intelligence (AI) aptitude tests used in the ongoing recruitment into Ghana’s security services, citing major challenges faced by applicants.
The Effutu Member of Parliament says the barrage of complaints from the constituents on the ongoing recruitment is unbearable as several people were disqualified during the recruitment process due to the difficulties encountered with the online testing system.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, Afenyo-Markin lauded the Ghana Armed Forces for setting up their system to allow prospective personnel to log in to take the text, unlike the other services where the system has been set for the AI to ask general questions.
“The AI system that has been deployed must be customised to ask relevant questions. It cannot be generalised. Mr. Speaker the Military did something good. They created a system where people entered to write the aptitude test direct,” he indicated.
He cited an instance where a prospective police recruit said he was asked to tell the size of a basketball court, which he said has no correlation with the service the person was applying for.
According to him, although he is for the use of AI and IT for the screening, it should be structured to generate questions that are related to the specific field in question.
He is therefore calling for the system to be scrapped and replaced with something that will make the process less stressful for those seeking to be enlisted unto the security services.
“Mr. Speaker, if it is possible, the system should be changed to enable our boys and girls who are even not educated on ICT to write it manually, so that a proper system is put in place to allow them go into the AI space.
“I’m for AI, I’m for IT but you cannot suddenly call somebody from Bunkrupgu, who doesn’t know anything about IT and wants to join the force work and you’re told that go and write aptitude test via AI and if you don’t have any means you fail,” he stated.
He called for a non-partisan approach to the issue, stressing the need for the ministry to address it head-on, saying the MPs have not been left off the hook with the challenges bedeviling the process.
“Mr. Speaker, this is not political and I don’t want it to be misconstrued. I think it is a serious system challenge that the ministry would have to look at properly because it is us the MPs who are carrying the burden and I speak for the entire House.
“Mr. Speaker, I’ll plead that the whole system be reviewed,” he reiterated.
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