[ 2014-09-02 ]

National Service Scheme Postings For 2014/ 2015 Released
The Board and Management of the Ghana National
Service Scheme has released to the General public
of the deployment of National Service persons for
the 2014/2015 service year.

At a press conference in Accra, Executive Director
of the NSS, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, disclosed that
this year’s release was one important event on
the scheme’s annual calendar.

He said the education sector over the years has
been the major beneficiary of the national service
personnel deployment. Therefore the scheme is
committed to the continuous support of the
education sector to improve the quality of
teaching and learning at all levels of education
for quality education delivery outcomes in the
country.

To support the education sector, he said the
scheme for the 2014/2015 service year has deployed
a total of 36,825 service personnel to the
education sector. This, he said, included 3,157
service personnel deployed to the tertiary
education level to support the Training
Institutions in faculty work, research and
administration.

Alhaji Imoro said the health sector remains a key
area where service personnel have made immense
contribution over the year. To this effort the
scheme has deployed 2,685 NSP to support health
delivery in hospitals, clinics, immunization
centers and National health insurance scheme.

The sector has attracted 4. % of the total
posting. The caliber of personnel includes
Pharmacists, doctor of Optometry, Nurses,
laboratory and Dispensary Technicians, including
personnel with accounting, psychology and social
work backgrounds.

He said the private sector has attracted 10,427
service personnel representing 13.2% of total
service deployment as against 10,427 representing
13.2% of total posting for last year 2013 to
2014.

Alhaji Imoro stressed on key deployment areas to
the private sector are Mining and Quarrying,
Commerce, Banking, Telecommunications, Energy,
|Hospitality and many others social service
providers.

He said the scheme has intensified its
collaboration with various institutions and
organizations in industry to train the service
personnel who are posted to them. He added that
this will help personnel to develop further skills
and be opened to new opportunities that can
enhance the personnel employability hence reducing
the graduate unemployment.

Another deployed area he touched on is the public
service institution where the scheme has scaled up
deployment of personnel to support public service
institutions for the 2014 to 2015 service year.

He said personnel are deployed to support district
Assemblies especially the rural ones, Municipal
and Metropolitan Assemblies to carry out their
development programmes. Personnel are also
allocated to other sector ministries and Agencies
such as Agriculture, Environment, Energy,
Communication, Trade, Statistical service and many
others to support them carry out their
programmes.

This sector he said has attracted 18,383 service
personnel constituting 44.8% of the total
deployment.

Alhaji Imoro said the scheme has specifically
deployed personnel with planning and surveying
backgrounds to all the MMDA’s and District
Assemblies to support their service programmes.He
said support will be given to the District
Planning units to collect data which is very
important for carrying out planning activities of
the Assemblies.

According to the regional distribution Greater
Accra recorded a total of 22824, followed by
Ashanti Region total of 13537, Brong Ahafo 5993,
Eastern Region 5611, Northern Region 5256, Central
Region 4615, western Region 4590, Volta Region
3837, upper West Region 2662 and upper east 2264.

He therefore touched on Agricultural projects as
the main focus of the scheme especially this year
2014 to 2015.The scheme is in collaboration with
the ministry of fisheries and Aqua Culture
Development, to expand its Aqua culture projects
in Greater Accra and Eastern Regions.

He mentioned that impersonations and fraudulent
activities and increasing number of the graduates
in Tertiary institutions turn out every year which
remained a challenge to the scheme over the
years.

Board Chairman of NSS, Mrs., Gifty Mahama Biyira
said it is the mandate of the board in this
direction to spelt out in the Act 426 section 3
(1), that is to deploy young Ghanaian graduate
into government’s priority areas such as
agriculture, education, health, Local government,
Military , C-operatives and any other areas that
the board may deem necessary.

She therefore call on service persons, parents and
guardians to see the posting as a call to national
duty, a call to offer selfless sacrifices to
mother Ghana, and make good use of the
opportunities that would be made available to them
in the various places of work.

Source - Anita Frimpong

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