Osei Assibey Antwi, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), has held members of the program accountable for the frequent delays in allowance payments.
He claims that today’s youth don’t care about time and don’t turn in the required paperwork on time, which prevents the system from processing allowances promptly.
Assibey Antwi added that because of the large number of national service personnel, processing their stipends becomes challenging when many of their documentations are not submitted on time.
He made these remarks when he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) on February 15, 2024.
“Mr Chairman, first of all, National Service, we’re widespread in number and to be able to ensure value for money, we actually have to go through a lot of extraneous validation process.
“…. The youth of today are not like us when we were doing our national service, we were taking to time, and if they have to submit by 15th, they do so.
“Mr Chairman, it would actually surprise you to know that we are now in February but a large number of them even have not been able to submit their appointment letters… that is the youth that we are working with now,” he said.
He added, “So, always we have to be on them and the way the system is structured if you don’t get more than 70%, 80% to submit and then you decide to submit in pieces, it becomes difficult because first it has to go through the auditors, the auditors would go through the controller, so the processes are long.”
According to the head of NSS, in order to prevent any delays in the payment of allowances to the NSS personnel of the 2024 batch, the program is collaborating with the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) to guarantee that service personnel submit their documentation on time.
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Why NSS Allowances Delay?
The youth of today are not like us, they delay in submitting their validation forms for payment of their allowances. pic.twitter.com/2X1TkAIeEU
— GTV Ghana (@GTV_Ghana) February 15, 2024
