National service personnel to receive allowances from next week
National service persons who are at post will start receiving their allowances from next week, the acting Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Dr Micheal Kpessa Whyte, has stated.
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Dr Whyte made this known when he paid a familiarisation visit to the NSS crop farm at Dawhenya and a livestock farm station at Nungua, both in the Greater Accra Region, last Thursday.
He said the current investigations going on at the secretariat had not affected the operations of the scheme.
“If anything at all, it will give us the opportunity to innovate to redress all the institutional weaknesses and lapses,” he said.
That, he said, would ensure that in the future, the NSS would return to its place of pride.
Learn on the job
Dr Whyte advised service persons to take advantage of the opportunity given them and learn on the job to help them own and manage their own businesses after their service.
“NSS should be a transition between the organised learning phase of your life and the phase of becoming an entrepreneur,” he stressed.
Dr Whyte also encouraged the service persons to share any innovative ideas they might have with the potential to enhance the successful administration of the scheme with their scheme managers and district officers.
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He urged them to take advantage of the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) Fund to start their own businesses.
Tour
At the Dawhenya crop farm, the Director of Projects of the NSS, Rev. George Gado, said with support from the Export Trade Agricultural and Industrial Development Fund (EDIAF), some equipment had been procured to help in the farming activities.
He announced that some experts would be arriving in the country next week to train personnel on how to use the machines.
For his part, the Farm Manager of the Nungua Livestock Farm, Mr Emmanuel Dagbui, said the bird population on the farm was more than 15,000.