Muntaka details how TrybeNet was selected for security recruitment services

Minister of the Interior, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, has explained the processes that led to the selection of TrybeNet to handle recruitment for Ghana’s security services, stating that the company was chosen after a competitive presentation process.

According to the minister in an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues on Sunday, March 15, 2026, four companies initially made presentations to the Ministry in response to the need for a technological solution to manage the recruitment process across the various security agencies.

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Speaking on the matter, Muntaka said the Ministry identified TrybeNet as the most suitable option after assessing the proposals presented.

“The interesting thing is that for me, frankly speaking, we wanted a solution and four of them also came to do a presentation and we saw the answer in TrybeNet,” he said.

He added that the Ministry followed due process by seeking approval from the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) after shortlisting the companies.

“We didn't just stop there, we wrote to PPA saying that we have shortlisted these three and we want to go through the process so that we can amend it. They granted it,” he explained.

The minister further noted that all the security agencies individually signed agreements with TrybeNet after the approval process.

“All the agencies, prison, police, immigration, fire, individually came and signed with TrybeNet. So far, they've done so well,” he stated.

Muntaka also addressed concerns that centralising the recruitment system could overwhelm the platform due to the volume of data involved.

“I remember in some of our discussion, there was concern that they've done this in the past, but they did it individually. Now that we are centralizing it, wouldn't the data be too huge so that it may crash? If it crashes, what's going to happen? Thank God, they've done it so excellently,” he said.

Muntaka, also the Member of Parliament for Asawase, also dismissed claims that the aptitude test for applicants is being managed by artificial intelligence or that the leadership of the security institutions has been sidelined.

“It’s not true that the aptitude test is AI-managed. It's not true that we sidestep leadership of the security institutions… They realized that one of the big gaps is that the Ministry is not playing its oversight effectively so in this particular instance, we decided to play our oversight very effectively. But believe me, the HRs of each of the institutions are fully in charge,” he stated.

He explained that each of the services contributed questions to a common pool used for the recruitment aptitude tests.

“These questions that we are talking about, each of the services provided questions into the pool but you see, when you go in, [the question] comes [at] random,” he said.

Muntaka added that the new system is designed to minimise interference in the recruitment process.

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“…It allows the process to be managed without interference …because in the past it was easy to do one manipulation or the other, and people would think that maybe, why are we just changing from one instrument to another but I thought that the best that you can do, under the given circumstances is to have a system that does not allow so much interference,” he stated.

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