Some 205 newly recruited staff of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) have had their appointments terminated because their hiring did not follow due process.
Speaking to Citi FM's Eyewitness News on Wednesday, the newly appointed acting Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Ussif Mustapha explained his predecessor, Dr Kpessa Whyte outsourced the recruitment to a private firm, Zormelo and Associates without recourse to the Public Service Commission.
Even when the Commission wrote to him to stop the process, he refused so the appointments of the 205 people who were hired on December 15, 2016, are nullified.
Such major decisions concerning the scheme are supposed to be taken by its Board but according to Mr Mustapha, since we are in transition and there is no Board, he sought approval from the  Education Ministry which was granted.
There was the belief after the appointments that Dr Whyte was just rushing to hire these people barely three weeks to the end of his tenure as means of rewarding National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters though he denied that.