{"id":201436,"date":"2025-07-02T14:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-12000-more-youth-into-security-services-dr-boamah\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:41:51","slug":"ghana-12000-more-youth-into-security-services-dr-boamah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-12000-more-youth-into-security-services-dr-boamah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 12,000 More Youth Into Security Services &#8211; Dr Boamah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Government over the next four years will recruit about 12,000 young people into the security services as part of a broader efforts to strengthen national security, Dr Boamah has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">This apart from creating meaningful employment opportunities for young people would help reduce their vulnerability to crime and drug abuse while channelling their energy into disciplined and patriotic service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking at the 65th Republic Day celebration yesterday in Accra, Dr Boamah commended the Cadet Corps&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507020443.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government over the next four years will recruit about 12,000 young people into the security services as part of a broader efforts to strengthen national security, Dr Boamah has announced. This apart from creating meaningful employment opportunities for young people would help reduce their vulnerability to crime and drug abuse while channelling their energy into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,36799,4508,4509,257,4586,7155,254,6276],"class_list":["post-201436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boamah","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-security","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}