[ 2017-02-09 ]

Ussif Mustapha

'Due process was breached': NSS boss defends sacking of 205 new staff
The acting Executive Director of the National
Service Scheme has defended the dismissal national
service staff recruited in the dying embers of the
NDC administration on grounds that due process was
not followed in the recruitment process.

Ussif Mustapha reveals that the recruitment of all
the 205 workers sacked on Wednesday was done
against the advice of eminent members of the
National Service Scheme (NSS).


“The NSS wrote to the Public Services Commission
for approval to recruit, the approval was granted
and [Michael Kpessah Whyte] started the process by
outsourcing it. The most senior persons at the
secretariat petitioned the Public Services
Commission against outsourcing the recruitment to
a private entity but the director went ahead and
carried out the recruitment process to a private
entity without the Public Services Commission
sitting on the board,” he told Accra-based Citi
FM.

He said the Public Service Commission should have
scrutinised the recruitment process, but that was
not done.

The Service on Wednesday annulled the recruitment
of new workers engaged in December 2016. 


The annulment, according to the NSS management,
was done on the advice of the newly approved
Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh.


However, the acting Executive Director of NSS said
all persons affected by the decision can reapply
and be interviewed by a properly constituted panel
that includes Human Resources Department and
Public Services Commission representatives.

Meanwhile, the former Director of NSS Dr Michael
Kpessah Whyte is urging the affected persons to
seek redress in court.

According to him, no illegality was perpetuated
during the recruitment process.
“The documents are there [to show],” he
reiterates.

Source - Myjoyonline.com

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