The Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA) has appealed to the security agencies and others to retain national service persons that display competence and excellent skills in their outfits.

Speaking at an orientation workshop for over four thousand graduates from tertiary universities and colleges at the Prempeh Assembly Hall in Kumasi, Hon Assibey said it was important that the government as well as corporate outfits create the needed space to employ service persons who show great skill and work ethic.

He noted that even though these national service persons may be going to experience for the first a different working environment after exiting the academic one in school, it was important to retain those who excel.

“This orientation workshop is to equip these national service persons with the requisite guidance and training so that they can easily carry out their mandatory services at the places they’ve been deployed to function”, the Director General stated.

Strategy:

The Director-General said the NSA administration with the new mindset which is to deploy to employ was instilling in the NSPs the requisite training so that they can be retained after giving off their best at oufits they are sent to.

He noted that those entering the teaching field have been given pedagogical skills to excel in the classroom.

Similarly, he noted that those entering the agric sector have been trained to do well and get employment afterwards.

“We are carefully wiring and training our national service persons to every field of work so that they could secure permanent jobs after their mandated service and we urge the security agencies and others to give first place for enlistment to NSPs who display excellent skills and competences while doing their service”, the Director General noted.

Expectations:

Speaking to this reporter, some of the graduates expressed happiness to have the opportunity to undergo the orientation exercise.

Others were uncertain about how their outfits would treat them having heard stories about how some previous graduates fared at those places.

Emmanuel Amankwa, a graduate from KNUST and resident of Asokwa said he was unsure if he would get the opportunity to be retained at the district assembly he had been posted to.

Miriam Obodai, a graduate from Christian Service University however noted that the pedagogical training she had undergone would help her to secure permanent employment at the school she has been posted to teach.

Story By Michael Ofosu-Afriyie, Kumasi.