Akufo-Addo to launch National Service Authority formerly National Service Scheme

The Bill also provides for collaboration between relevant institutions to create a safety net for graduates who successfully complete their mandatory national service.

It also promotes employability, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation among persons qualified to undertake national service.

The National Service Authority Bill, 2024, was laid in Parliament by the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum under a certificate of urgency on the 14th of last month pursuant to a Cabinet Memorandum dated.

It was referred to the Committee on Education for determination of the urgency or otherwise. The committee determined the bill to be of urgent nature and urged the House to pass it under a certificate of urgency.

Reacting to the Bill’s passage, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi thanked Parliament for the unity of purpose with which the bill was on.

“Now, Parliament has given us an autonomy, an authority that is vested with powers in areas where it is going to enhance entrepreneurship.

With this current status, NSS can work to achieve a lot of internally-generated funds to reduce burden from the central government and we know the President will assent to it to give it the finality,” the NSS official said.