Whyte: NSS not job provider

Acting Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Dr Michael Kpessah Whyte, has advised national service personnel to cultivate the habit of entrepreneurship.

Addressing service personnel at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), as part of a new regular inspection drive by the NSS, he said the Service does not have the mandate to look for jobs for personnel.

“We are not in the business of looking for jobs for people. We will be encouraging entrepreneurial training. We will be providing as many opportunities as possible for service personnel to take advantage of, but what we will not do is to spoon-feed service personnel.

“We will teach you how to fish, and I believe the educational institutions where you had your degrees began that. We will continue to do that in terms of teaching you how to fish, but we will not give you fish,” he said.

Dr. Kpessah Whyte noted that there were occasions where companies retained national service personnel because of their output and urged them to work hard.

Meanwhile, Director of Human Resources and Services at GRIDCo Samuel J.A Allotey said the company intended to employ more national service personnel as it widens its infrastructural base and expands to meet the needs of their clients.

“We are an organisation that has structures, we have the numbers that we need to get the job done, but the good news is that we are expanding, so, progressively, we will be taking on more and more people.”

Mr Allotey also disclosed some of the training offered to service personnel at GRIDCo.

“At the end of the programme, we organise transition training for them, moving out of the classroom environment’s structured learning to a real world of work.”