The ongoing recruitment exercise into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is being 
disgraced as scratch cards for online registration is selling above the normal price of fifty Ghana Cedis (Ghc 50).
For the first time of recruiting applicants online, unemployed males and females besieged the numerous regional post offices in the country only to buy their scratch cards above price.
rawgist.com spoket to several youth lined up at the Adum post office to buy their cards. Many of them revealed that “when you go to the counter they tell you the scratch cards are finished but you go to the internet cafes you get one at Ninety Ghana Cedis (Ghc90)”.
Checks at designated post offices revealed the scratch cards are being hoarded and delibrately sold at cut-throat prices by middlemen.
Many of the desperate youth rawgist.com spoke to urged the military to step in and save the face of the recruitment exercise which has been left in the hands of corrupt postal agents.
Many are also left to wonder the capacity of the Armed Forces to absorb the teeming youth buying the forms especially at a time the government is facing economic hardship.
Eligibility
General Eligibility.
- Eligible applicant must:
a. Be a Ghanaian citizen by birth.
b. Be of good character.
c. Be not less than 18 years and not more than 25 years by 31 December 2014.
d. Be medically fit by Armed Forces standards.
e. Be not married.
f. Be not bonded.
g. Be of minimum height of 1.68m (5’6”) for males and 1.57m (5’2”) for females. For Military Police only; be of a minimum height of 1.75m (5’9”) for males and 1.70m (5’7”) for females.
h. Must have six (6) Credits (Not less than grade 6) at BECE including English and Mathematics.
