Brong Ahafo NSS personnel angry over unpaid allowance

Over a hundred national service personnel in the Nkronza North District of the Brong Ahafo Region besieged the National Service Scheme (NSS) office demanding the payment of their November allowance.

According to the disgruntled service personnel, several efforts to compel government to pay their allowances have proved futile.

Speaking with Citi News some of them expressed their anger and complained that they have been left stranded.

[contextly_sidebar id=”phDUKHB2EM8EMIfZvaxZTrswx2kArwvs”]“Yesterday they told us that they have closed for the day so we should find a place to sleep and they will give us the money this morning. But this morning we went to the office to collect the card and go for the money but they told us that the cheque has been dishonored so there is no way we are getting our monies,” one of the personnel narrated.

Another also expressed anger and frustration over the unpaid allowances saying, “I spent GHC 50 from my home town to this place and I was told the check has re-bounced and they are asked us to go back. That means we have come for nothing.”

In December, NSS personnel across the country gave the Secretariat a one-week ultimatum to pay them their three months allowance or face their wrath.

The NSS Acting Executive Director, Dr. Michael Kpessa-Whyte in response disclosed that all necessary auditing and validation of pay vouchers at the NSS Secretariat for the payment of money have been completed and that all cheques have been dispatched to the various regions to complete the process of payment of personnel allowances.