Our dismissal ‘nonsensical’ – NSS recruit

One of the dismissed recruits of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Edwin Afetsi, has described the termination of their appointments as “nonsense”.

On Wednesday February 8, the Executive Director of the NSS, Ussif Mohammed, wrote a letter directing all the 205 last-minute recruits to go home.

The dismissed personnel were recruited into the scheme by former acting director Dr Michael Kpessa-Whyte. He has since asked the recruits to seek redress in court.

Speaking on 12Live on Class 91.3FM on Thursday February 9, Mr Afetsi said: “Last year October, the National Service Secretariat placed an advert in the newspapers that they were seeking to employ into the scheme district directors, accountants, and co, so we were asked to apply through a medium, that is by email, to a recruitment company.

“We did so and later on in November we had interview invitations by email and I had my interview on the 8th of November 2016. We went through three stages of interviews … and after the interview we waited till between December 13 and 15 when we were called that we were successful at the interview so we should come for our appointment letters.

“This thing is quite [some] nonsense. We were not favoured because we were anything. We are just Ghanaians who applied for an opportunity to be employed. I have been with the scheme for the past eight years. I was a volunteer who got the opportunity now and applied and was employed, so that tag of being favoured does not come in at all. The only remedy now is that we have to go to court to seek redress.