Deputy Executive Director at the National Service Scheme (NSS), Gifty Oware-Mensah has dismissed claims by some national service personnel that the Scheme owes them three months allowance.
Speaking to JoyNews on The Pulse on Wednesday, she said the Service has paid 67,000 personnel as of April, 2022, adding that only personnel who have not submitted their monthly evaluation forms are yet to be paid.
“National service is not owing our national service personnel any three months. We have paid April and then we are in the month of May on our national service calendar and this month of May is supposed to end on the 15th of June. So as you and I are speaking, we are not owing national service personnel. Rather, there are pockets of people who have not submitted their monthly assessment forms, some have not put their right e-zwich numbers up and some have not even worked for the time they are asking us to pay them.
“These are few people we are owing and these do not even add up to thousand. We have paid 67,000 NSPs as at April and there is no way we are owing any national service personnel,” she explained.
Gifty Oware-Mensah assured that the NSS will however fast-track payment for personnel who delayed in submitting their monthly assessment forms.
