{"id":734335,"date":"2019-10-30T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/30\/boost-for-immigration-officers\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:37:33","slug":"boost-for-immigration-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/30\/boost-for-immigration-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost For Immigration Officers –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kwame Asuah Takyi \u2013 Comptroller-General of Ghana Immigration Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has granted
\nstudy leave to 296 officers, representing 4.93 per cent of its current human
\nresource instead of the usual 1.5 per cent. <\/p>\n

This first ever monumental increment was made
\nknown when the Comptroller-General of Immigration (CGI), Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi,
\naddressed a durbar of service personnel at the national headquarters in Accra,
\nlast Friday, on study leave approvals for the 2019\/2020 academic year and
\nrelated matters. <\/p>\n

According to him, the decision for the increment
\nfor the 2019\/2020 study leave was borne out of the need for strategic manpower
\ndevelopment and to build a strong knowledge based organization as captured in
\nthe GIS\u2019s five year strategic plan with \u2018learning organization\u2019 as one of its
\ncore values.<\/p>\n

The CGI lamented over the current study leave policy
\nwhich was last reviewed in 2011, ever since it was instituted in 2002. \u201cThe old
\nquota was set based on the workforce at that time but had become inadequate
\nconsidering the current numbers,\u201d he noted. \u201cOur numbers have increased and we
\nwill be denying many if we do not review the policy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He further indicated that several junior
\nofficers, who had worked between seven to 13 years and had applied for study
\nleave on several occasions, were refused for the reason of a \u2018seniority clause\u2019
\nin the study leave policy. \u201cThis unfairness is worrying, especially when senior
\nofficers could pursue second Masters Degree programmes at the expense of junior
\nofficers who struggle just to get the opportunity to pursue First Degree over a
\npolicy of seniority,\u201d he added.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

He also explained that the decision to increase
\nthe quota for junior officers for the 2019\/2020 academic year was because most
\nof the officers would undertake their respective course of study on the basis
\nof long distance and over the weekend, which would not affect their working
\nschedule.<\/p>\n

Mr. Takyi assured the officers that all
\nlegitimate concerns in the study leave policy would be considered to ensure
\ntransparency and fairness in the application and selection processes for the
\nbenefit of the service as well as personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore a committee to be chaired by the
\nDeputy Comptroller-General in-charge of Legal, Research and Monitoring, Madam
\nVictoria N. Baaba Asare, has been constituted to address inherent challenges
\narising from the study leave policy in recent times and review it to respond to
\npresent exigencies\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He however noted that the attainment of a higher educational qualification by an officer as contained in Regulation 17(6) of the Immigration Service Regulation, 2016 [L.I. 2245], would not guarantee automatic promotion by reason of only a qualification.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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