Unsuccessful job seekers aren’t buying the official explanation that their condition might lead to bleeding during strenuous training.

Refusing job applications with bleached skin and stretch marks is dismissed by rights groups in Ghana as sexist and unfair.

Most anger is directed at penalising  those with stretch marks.

Candidates face a medical check as part of the immigration service recruitment process.

More than 84 000 people paid the equivalent of R120 for an application for only to learn the service is recruiting no more than 500 people.

Local MP Richard Quashigah’s urging rejected applications to demand their money back

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