As part of the tour, the over 100 members of staff drawn from the NSS Headquarters and the Greater Accra Regional Office applied insecticides and fertilizers to crops on the farm.

Explaining the reason behind the NSS’ decision to revive the farm projects, Mustapha Ussif stated that “as a strategic institution, the President’s campaign is a laudable call for us to mobilize our staff and machinery into cultivating cereals and rearing livestock as part of our effort to generate funds internally, while contributing to national food security, as well as empowering the young generation with an interest in modern agriculture methods under our mandate.”

Mr. Ussif also revealed that as part of measures to control the army worm invasion, an out of budget expenditure of Gh100, 000 had been made.

He however appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture( MOFA) and agro-based research institutions to help the Scheme solve the canker.

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By: Franklin Badu Jnr/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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A statement issued by the Executive Director of the Scheme, Mustapha Ussif on Tuesday, said the validation comes as a follow-up exercise to their reforms in the E-zwich payment system.

[contextly_sidebar id=”DyqZi5RZDbIsZgtXkpwuiKw3aYuWuK1D”]The statement said all personnel are required to complete the validation process by Monday, May 15, 2017.

“All national service personnel are therefore expected to obtain validation forms from the district secretariats of the NSS, fill them with their respective heads of departments, and personally submit them to the district secretariats by Monday, 15th May, 2017 to complete the validation process.”

“It is important for national service personnel to note that, anyone who is not validated by the stipulated date, will be considered nonexistent and therefore, WILL NOT be paid his/her allowance,” the statement added.

In a related development, the Management of the Scheme, has expressed their readiness to work with the newly elected national executives of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA).

The new executives were elected at the just ended National Delegates Congress at Koforidua over the weekend.

A statement signed by the Deputy Executive Director in charge of Finance and Administration, Gifty Oware-Aboagye, said management is looking forward to a cordial working relationship with the new executives.

It further advised that, they “live above individual and parochial interests and make the interests of the entire membership of NASPA their priority.”

The new executives are;  Philip Burberry Quaye (President), Adam Mohammed Hardi (General Secretary), Thonney Aidoo (Financial Secretary), James K. Bamaalazone (Organizing Secretary), and Gloria Offei Addo (Women Commissioner).

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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As part of their Annual Delegates Conference ongoing in the Eastern Region, personnel of the Association from all the 10 regions on Friday morning marched through the principal streets of Koforidua with placards  speaking against the canker, and raising awareness.

The group, numbering close to 800, clad in white and green national service t-shirts with bold inscriptions “Stop galamsey now” “say no to Galamsey” danced to brass band music shouting “Stop galamsey now.”

In an interview with Citi News, the Eastern Regional President of NASPA, Frimpong Borge, said it was time the service added their voice to the fight.

“It has come in good time to add our voice to the national campaign which has been championed by the media.”

“We have national service personnel in all the regions that have been badly affected by the activities of galamsey, our water bodies have been polluted; the environment has been depleted so it is time we join the campaign to stop galamsey now.”

Staff of Citi FM and volunteers were on some principal streets of Accra on Friday, to continue the #StopGalamseyNow campaign, this time with emphasis on creating awareness on the levels of pollution in water bodies across the country.

Citi FM launched the #StopGalamseyNow campaign about four weeks ago, in a bid to put pressure on government to stop such activities that are polluting water bodies and destroying the environment.

The #StopGalamseyNow campaign among others, demands of government to undertake five steps to clamp down on the menace.

Citi FM’s five demands include:

• The total cessation of all small and medium scale mining for a period of six months
• The cessation of the issuance of new mining licenses for a year
• The reclassification of mining categories to reflect the use of new/larger equipment
• The allowance of water bodies to regenerate their natural ecology
• Tree planting and a land reclamation project

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By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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