Fact-check: The National Communication Authority has not recruited 225 applicants

The 225 applicants have passed both written and oral interviews. They are now awaiting ‘screening’, a final stage that will see 87 of them recruited by the National Communication Authority.

Writer: Emmanuel Bida Thomas

A recent report by The City Review, a Juba-based English daily newspaper in South Sudan, claimed that the National Communication Authority had recruited 225 applicants for different positions, which is misleading.

“The National Communication Authority said it has recruited 225 applicants out of the 3000 candidates interviewed for various positions last year,” reads the claim published on January 20, 2024.

According to the same news report, which claims that 225 applicants were recruited, only 87 vacancies were advertised by the National Communication Authority.

A November 3, 2023, news report by City Review also confirms that the National Communication Authority (NCA) had advertised for 87 vacancies.

A screenshot of a section of the news report published on City Review’s website

So, have 225 applicants been recruited by the National Communications Authority? We checked

Claim Verification:

Madut Akol Nhial, the Managing Director of Bridge Employment Solutions, said in an Eye Radio news report that out of all the candidates interviewed, only 225 passed the oral interview, and they will be subjected to a second screening.

Bridge Employment Solutions is the company contracted to conduct the hiring process on behalf of the National Communications Authority. It said that 225 of the over 3,000 candidates who did an oral interview for vacant positions at the institution have made it to the final stage.

Jervase, a public relations officer at the National Communications Authority, told 211 Check when contacted via WhatsApp that the results of the forthcoming interview would determine the 87 finalists who would be recruited.

“225 passed previous interviews and will be put through the final one. From the results, 87 will be selected because of the advertised vacancies that were 87 in the beginning,” Jervase said.

Conclusion:

211 Check finds the claim that the National Communication Authority has recruited 225 applicants misleading. The 225 of the over 3,000 candidates who have made it to the final stage will see 87 recruited, according to both Bridge Employment Solutions and the National Communications Authority.

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