{
  "id": 4580992,
  "title": "10 recruits dismissed for defying phone ban – Interior Minister",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/10-recruits-dismissed-for-defying-phone-ban-interior-minister",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-31T05:11:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/10-recruits-dismissed-for-defying-phone-ban-interior-minister/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak has announced that at least 10 recruits from Ghana's security services training schools have been dismissed for violating a phone ban during training. The recruits were found to be secretly retaining their mobile devices despite being instructed to hand them over upon arrival at the institutions. Mubarak emphasized the importance of discipline and rule-following in the selection of security service recruits during a meeting with students at Satafiya Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi. He expressed worry over some recruits attempting to bypass rules after admission, highlighting the stringent responsibilities and discipline required in the security sector. Mubarak also shared that the latest recruitment drive attracted over half a million applicants, but only around 10,000 were chosen for training, underscoring the rigorous and competitive nature of the process. \"We took only 10,000. Indiscipline: people got there, and they were hiding their phones in their pillows,\" he noted.",
  "summary": "The Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, has disclosed that at least 10 recruits have been dismissed from Ghana’s security services training schools for breaching a directive banning mobile phones during training.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}