The Ghanaian Immigration
Service (GIS) has disqualified candidates with bleached skin and stretch marks
from a massive recruitment exercise.
A GIS spokesman told the BBC this was because people with
such marks might bleed during the "strenuous" training.
Some Ghanaians condemned the bar as sexist and unfair. Those
with tattoos, dreadlocks and "bow legs" were also disqualified from
the exercise.
The GIS received some 84,000 applications for just 500 jobs.
"The kind of work we do, it's strenuous and the
training is such that if you have bleached skin or surgical marks on your body
during training exercises, you may incur some bleedings," Superintendent
Michael Amoako-Attah, told BBC Pidgin.
Candidates must undergo a medical and a full body check as
part of the GIS recruitment process.
It is the ban on stretch marks which has aroused most anger
on social media.
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