The Minister of the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, has dismissed claims that the aptitude tests used for recruiting personnel into Ghana’s security services are managed by artificial intelligence (AI).

Mr. Mubarak explained that the Interior Ministry has partnered with the Ghanaian technology company, Trybnet, to digitalise human resource management across the police, prisons, immigration, and fire services. The move, he said, was part of a wider effort to modernise operations and improve oversight.

“The interesting thing is that, frankly speaking, we wanted a solution. About four companies came to do presentations, and we saw the answer in Trybnet,” he said.

“We didn’t just stop there. We wrote to the PPA and said we’d shortlisted three companies to go through the process… and they granted it. Then all the agencies – prisons, police, immigration, fire – individually signed with Trybnet. Believe me, so far they’ve done so well.”

The clarification came during an interview on Accra-based TV3 Ghana programme Hot Issues on Sunday, March 15, 2026.

Despite the use of digital tools, Mr. Mubarak emphasised that human supervision is at the heart of the recruitment process. “It is not true that the aptitude test is AI-managed,” he stressed.

“When we came, there were some recruits in training, and then there was this whole hullabaloo. We set up a committee, and it recommended that one of the big gaps was effective oversight.”

The Minister clarified that the HR units of each security agency remain fully responsible for recruitment processes.

“Any process that we are carrying out, they are fully in charge. The questions are provided by each service into a central pool. When a candidate takes the test, the questions are selected randomly,” he added.

Minister Mubarak praised Trybnet as a Ghanaian company led by young innovators.

“You won’t believe it: currently, we don’t have a digital system to manage inmates in prisons, and HR for most security services is still manual. There is a lot they can do,” he remarked, describing the collaboration as a step toward modernising the security sector.