Parliament has enacted the National Service Authority Bill 2024.
The bill aims to establish the National Service Authority, tasked with mobilizing and deploying qualified individuals for national service in priority areas to foster national development and enhance employability.
It further proposes to establish the authority as a corporate entity with the legal capacity to formulate and implement policies and programs for national service.
Osei Assibey Antwi, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, expressed satisfaction with the bill’s passage during a media engagement on Tuesday, July 9, highlighting its anticipated benefits.
“If you have a vibrant youth, if you have a youth that has a future, if you have a youth that knows where they are going, if you have a youth that has the policy to guide them, especially at this time that the current management and the board have now moved into a new direction called deployment for employment. This deployment for employment can only be enhanced with this current backing.”
Mr Assibey Antwi added that the bill’s passage will the authority to generate funds internally to complement the government’s efforts toward creating employment opportunities for the youth.
“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 the burden from the central government and we know the President will assent to it to give it the finality.”
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