{"id":242266,"date":"2016-08-23T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=242266"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:51:12","slug":"nss-registrants-appeal-for-deadline-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/nss-registrants-appeal-for-deadline-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS registrants appeal for deadline extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some prospective National Service personnel who are registering for the 2016\/17 service year in the Greater Accra Region, have appealed for an extension of the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>With three days to go until registration ends on Friday, August 26, 2016, several potential National Service Secretariat (NSS) personnel have not yet been registered.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;fn3NwIiRwkEcQ0scDoamUjOdemdX4VLZ&#8221;]Some of the graduates who had been forced to wait in long queues for hours, expressed concern about the limited number of personnel who were processing the forms at the Greater Accra Regional office of the NSS and the slow pace of those who were on duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe personnel over there are slow. Even the machines used in processing the biometric pictures are limited. We need to have enough machines as compared to the vast number of the people gathered here. One thing that I believe will help all of us is the extension of the deadline. There are many people who haven\u2019t even started registration due to their schedules,\u201d one of them told <strong>Citi News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another prospective registrant said;\u00a0&#8220;We\u00a0need more space, more machines and more people to work because at the initial stage, it was two people, one person collecting for both private and public institutions when two people can easily do it for it to go faster. They seriously need more personnel because\u00a0the biometric pictures are limited.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242276\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kpessah-WHyte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-242276\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kpessah-WHyte.jpg\" alt=\"Acting Executive Director of the NSS, Dr. Michael Kpessah-Whyte \" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acting Executive Director of the NSS, Dr. Michael Kpessah-Whyte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There have been several complaints from the registrants about the machines being used. 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