NSS LAW DISCRIMINATORY- NSS DIRECTOR

The Asante Mampong Municipal Director of the National Service, Alfred Agyemang Badu, says there is a discrepancy in the legal interpretation and application of punishments against persons who refuse to undertake the mandatory one year National Service after school. 

Speaking to GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi, the Municipal NSS Director wondered why in one breath, the law establishing the NSS clearly forbids the employment of defaulting school graduates from getting formal employment and in another instance, the Constitution is silent on the eligibility of such offenders to hold Ministerial positions or to enter Parliament. 

This situation, Mr. Agyemang Badu, noted, is unfair and must be corrected. He noted that every graduate of a Diploma or Degree awarding school is required by the law to undertake the one year National Service. 

They include products of both public and private universities, polytechnics, nursing and midwifery schools, colleges of education among others.

 Mr. Agyemang Badu said even though the law exempts graduates aged 40 or older from the mandatory National Service, they are still required by the law to get documentary clearance from the NSS secretariat at the time of completion of school but not when come into conflict with the law. 

He therefore advised all current final year students and old students who avoided rendering their mandatory National Service to learn from the ongoing controversies in the ministerial appointments to comply with the law in their own interest.