70% Of Service Personnel Posted to Education Sector
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 About 70 per cent of
national service personnel for 2008/2009 have been posted to the
education sector to enhance government's effort in providing quality
education, the National Service Scheme (NSS) announced on Monday.
This would help meet the shortfall in the supply of teachers in rural
areas, Mr. Kofi Obiri Yeboah, Executive Director of the NSS said at a
news conference in Accra.
As usual, the Greater Accra Region topped the list of postings, having
10,988 out of the 34,500 personnel, which is the highest national
posting record since the Scheme began in 1973.
Mr. Yeboah therefore asked all service personnel to contact the NSS
website - www.nssghana.org - to check their posting and print out their
appointment letters with effect from Wednesday, October 8. He reminded
personnel that national service was a call to national duty and
postings must be accepted in good faith. "It should never be seen as a
form of punishment when one is posted to serve the nation." The NSS
Executive Director also cautioned user agencies against the practice of
submitting a list of preferred personnel to the NSS for posting.
He further explained that some organisations had developed the habit of
going to the various tertiary institutions to conduct attitudinal test
to compile a list of preferred personnel, saying that it was only the
NSS that had the legal mandate for posting. Mr. Yeboah also announced
an increase in the allowances of personnel from GHC 125 to GHC 144 and
salary arrears for the 2007/2008 batch.
Mr Alhassan Imoro, Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and
Evaluation and Posting Coordinator, also explained that Greater Accra
had the highest posting due to the number of vacancies available within
the region.
On accommodation, Mr Imoro said that the NSS was liaising with the
district assemblies as well civil society organisations to provide
accommodation for personnel posted to remote areas. Meanwhile, the
remaining percentage of the personnel would work with the Ministries,
Department and Agencies, district assemblies and the private sector.
Ashanti Region will have 5,640 personnel, Brong Ahafo, 2,667, Central
region, 2,080, Eastern, 2,871, Western, 2,690 and Volta 1,571 for the
Volta. The Northern, Upper West and Upper East would also receive
1,871; 710 and 698 personnel in that order.
GNA
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