NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME ON THE HEELS OF EMPLOYERS, DEFAULTING GRADUATES

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The National Service Secretariat has set up an Enforcement Department to undertake a nationwide verification exercise to fish out any eligible Ghanaian who forfeited his or her mandatory National Service but has managed to secure employment. 

The exercise is meant also to identify all organizations that have violated the National Service law, Act 426 of 1980 by offering employment to citizens who evaded the National Service. Any one, whether employee or employer found out through the enforcement exercise to have breached the Act shall then be subjected to the full rigours of the law to serve as scape goat to ensure strict compliance henceforth. 

The Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme, Alex Opoku Mensah, made this known in an interview with Ashanti Today in Kumasi. 

The National Service law, Act 426 of 1980 makes it mandatory for every Ghanaian citizen of 18 years of age who has completed a Course of study at any accredited tertiary educational institution to undertake National Service for one year.

 The deployment of such eligible applicants remains the reserve of the National Service Scheme. In the same law however, room exemption has been made for citizens of 40 years or older who have just completed tertiary education after going through due process. Similarly, persons who were qualified but evaded deployment could also avail themselves for the mandatory National Service by making themselves available. 

Despite such opportunities provided by the law, the National Service Secretariat suspects that there are many people who have deliberately evaded undertaking the mandatory national call to duty. 

It is to stop ensure strict compliance with the law that the NSS has set up a special Department to deter graduates and employers from flouting the Act. 

The Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme, Alex Opoku Mensah explained no defaulting employee or employer identified through the Enforcement national exercise will be let off the hook.


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