Report misconduct of NSS personnel

Dr Michael Kpessa Whyte, the acting Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, has asked user agencies to report the misconduct and absenteeism of personnel to the authorities.

He said such reports would allow the Scheme to monitor the performance of the personnel and to mete out sanctions to the culprits.

Dr Kpessa Whyte said this when he visited the factory of Nestle Ghana Limited in Tema, with his team from the Greater Accra to familiarise themselves with how service personnel were faring at work.

The visit was part of a programme embarked upon by the NSS to obtain feedback from both service personnel and user agencies on how improve the scheme.

Dr Kpessa Whyte noted that many service personnel did not approach the national service period with a positive attitude and, therefore, did not give of their best.

He urged service personnel not to see the service as paid employment but rather as part of their introduction to the corporate world.

“The national service is to enable you to mingle with the larger society and experience the corporate environment as it applies in the real world, as well as to identify the job opportunities available at your disposal for your future career development”.

Dr Kpessa Whyte asked the personnel to see the service as a training process that would open their eyes to various business opportunities inherent in the country and urged them to build their social networks now for their future.

He commended the management of Nestle Ghana for their continuous support to the service scheme and called for sustaining the long standing collaboration.

Ms Antoinette Arkoh, the Head of Human Resources, Nestle Ghana Limited, commended the leadership of the NSS for the initiative of familiarising themselves with the kind of work the service personnel were engaged in to improve on the scheme and collaboration.

She said Nestle had since 2011 engaged more than 500 service personnel and retained quite a number of them due to their competence.

She noted that Nestle Business Services, which served the West and Central Africa, had retained about 95 per cent of service personnel after their one year training and had become acquainted with the company’s values and way of doing things.

She advised personnel to seize the service opportunity to give of their best and be open to learning hard towards their own career development.