{"id":368297,"date":"2017-11-05T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368297"},"modified":"2017-11-05T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:18:40","slug":"nss-insurance-meant-to-reward-npp-financier-kpessah-whyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/nss-insurance-meant-to-reward-npp-financier-kpessah-whyte\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS insurance meant to reward NPP financier \u2013 Kpessah Whyte"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Dr. Michael Kpessah-Whyte, has alleged that the compulsory insurance package<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for national service personnel is a venture to pay back a financier of the governing New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) election campaign.<\/p>\n According to him, the insurance scheme may have been put together to reward the owner of a known insurance company, who supported the NPP\u2019s campaign with GH\u00a21 million.<\/p>\n He is thus of the view that the policy is not in the interest of National Service persons.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”JQ4Z1exoY0b57I4Uotf5erzVNv6K0qT2″]Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Friday, Mr. Kpessah-Whyte said,\u00a0the introduction of the insurance package was merely an attempt to enrich some persons fraudulently.<\/p>\n \u201cI really don\u2019t think that this something that is genuinely intended to address the problem of National Service personnel. A few days ago, a senior member of the NPP on one of the TV stations said that, there is a particular man who had brought in 1 million cedis to support their [NPP] campaign and that man has not been sorted out yet. Google GLICO insurance and check who the owner is… track that TV interview and match the name of the person who was mentioned. This suggests that, we have a problem and we need to address it frontally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The NSS partnered with MTN and Glico Life Insurance, earlier this week, to launch the life insurance cover for the over 90,000 personnel.<\/p>\n This compulsory insurance package spearheaded by various insurance companies is expected to pay claims to service personnel who get involved in accidents in their line of duty.<\/p>\n The claims vary from GHc 15,000 in cases of death or incapacitation and GHS3,000 for cases of disability.<\/p>\n As part of the insurance package, National Service personnel are entitled to a GHc 500 loan which is payable within six months.<\/p>\n