{"id":380782,"date":"2017-12-07T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380782"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:48:33","slug":"nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over &#8216;compulsory&#8217; insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some disgruntled National Service personnel have sued the National Service Scheme and its Executive Director, Mustapha Ussif, over the GH\u00a2 15 compulsory insurance charges.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel say the deduction from their allowance is unlawful and unreasonable.<\/p>\n<p>They are therefore asking the court to compel the National Service Scheme to cease the deductions which took effect from November, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the aggrieved National Service Personnel, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, told<strong> Citi News\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThey [personnel] have not authorized anybody to enter into an insurance contract on their behalf. An insurance contract must have a policyholder who should enter into a contract with the insurance company [but this did not happen].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where is the insurance policy? Where is the contract?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Some National Service personnel have been up in arms over the compulsory insurance policy, which they say has been imposed on them by the National Service Scheme headed by Ussif Mustapha.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel argued that, the decision to have the insurance program, was not made by them, neither were they consulted before its implementation, hence deductions must not be made from their meager allowances compulsorily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSS personnel petition CHRAJ over compulsory insurance\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some National Service Personnel earlier this week petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), over the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/30\/compulsory-nss-insurance-must-reviewed-naspa\/\"><strong>mandatory insurance\u00a0package<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0introduced for them by the National Service Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/01\/nss-launches-insurance-scheme-personnel-to-pay-ghc15-monthly\/\"><strong>imposition of the insurance package<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0infringes on their basic human rights since the decisions taken by the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA), does not bind all service personnel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Service personnel agreed to \u2018compulsory\u2019 insurance \u2013 NSS Boss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Service Scheme\u2019s head, Mustapha Ussif, has denied suggestions that the compulsory insurance package meant for all service personnel in the country is being imposed on the personnel.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the personnel backed the insurance package, and even pushed the management of the Scheme to implement it. He said the National Service Personnel Association of Ghana (NASPA), the group which represents service personnel across the country, decided unanimously at their Congress to back the policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The insurance package<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>The claims vary from GHc 15,000 in cases of death or incapacitation and GHS3,000 for cases of disability. As part of the insurance package, National Service personnel are entitled to a GHc 500 loan which is payable within six months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSS insurance meant to reward NPP financier \u2013 Kpessah Whyte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A former Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Dr. Michael Kpessah-Whyte, had alleged that the compulsory insurance package is a venture to pay back a financier of the governing New Patriotic Party\u2019s (NPP) election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nHe is thus of the view that the policy is not in the interest of National Service persons, and that it constitutes \u201cdaylight robbery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSS insurance scheme not a reward from NPP \u2013 GLICO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, GLICO Life has denied allegations that its engagement with the NSS to provide an insurance package for National Service personnel, is a reward for the company because the owner was a financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>The Managing Director of GLICO Life, Forkuo Kyei, in a statement to\u00a0<strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong>\u00a0said the allegations are unfounded as GLICO Life is part of five other companies offering the insurance package to the service personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some disgruntled National Service personnel have sued the National Service Scheme and its Executive Director, Mustapha Ussif, over the GH\u00a2 15 compulsory insurance charges. The personnel say the deduction from their allowance is unlawful and unreasonable. They are therefore asking the court to compel the National Service Scheme to cease the deductions which took effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":379224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10,11],"tags":[3,15253],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over &#039;compulsory&#039; insurance - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over &#039;compulsory&#039; insurance - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some disgruntled National Service personnel have sued the National Service Scheme and its Executive Director, Mustapha Ussif, over the GH\u00a2 15 compulsory insurance charges. The personnel say the deduction from their allowance is unlawful and unreasonable. They are therefore asking the court to compel the National Service Scheme to cease the deductions which took effect [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-07T06:33:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-07T06:48:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NSS1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jonas Nyabor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jonas Nyabor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/\",\"name\":\"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over 'compulsory' insurance - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-07T06:33:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-07T06:48:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over &#8216;compulsory&#8217; insurance\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\",\"name\":\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"description\":\"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b\",\"name\":\"Jonas Nyabor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jonas Nyabor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/jonas\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over 'compulsory' insurance - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over 'compulsory' insurance - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","og_description":"Some disgruntled National Service personnel have sued the National Service Scheme and its Executive Director, Mustapha Ussif, over the GH\u00a2 15 compulsory insurance charges. The personnel say the deduction from their allowance is unlawful and unreasonable. They are therefore asking the court to compel the National Service Scheme to cease the deductions which took effect [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/","og_site_name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3","article_published_time":"2017-12-07T06:33:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-12-07T06:48:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NSS1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jonas Nyabor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@citi973","twitter_site":"@citi973","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jonas Nyabor","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/","name":"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over 'compulsory' insurance - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-12-07T06:33:55+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-07T06:48:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nss-boss-scheme-sued-by-personnel-over-compulsory-insurance\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NSS Boss, scheme sued by personnel over &#8216;compulsory&#8217; insurance"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/","name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","description":"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b","name":"Jonas Nyabor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jonas Nyabor"},"url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/jonas\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}