Allowances for over 8,000 National Service personnel across the country have been withheld, the National Service Secretariat has disclosed.
In a statement, the suspension of the payment of the September allowances is to allow for investigations into the affected personnel, who are either suspected of impersonation or disqualified from doing national service.
In the statement signed by the acting Executive Director of the NSS, Mustapha Ussif, the September allowances for 58,000 other personnel have been paid after a month-long delay due to the process of authentication and validation.Â
“Service personnel are therefore required to go to designated e-zwich service points to load their cards to access their allowances,†it said.
It added, “…all national service personnel who have not biometrically registered were not captured for payment of the September 2017 allowances.
“All such national service personnel are therefore advised to visit the designated centres in Accra, Kumasi, or Tamale without any further delay to complete their biometric registration for their names to be validated for payment of allowances due them,†it noted.
According to the Secretariat said the authentication and validation of all national service personnel across the country were necessary because it has exposed a number of irregularities.
In the Ashanti Region, it said 22 people were arrested and put under investigation of whom nine are currently being prosecuted.
A total of 57 people have also been arrested and are currently under police investigation in Tamale in the Northern Region.
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