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03.08.2015 Regional News

National Service Postings To The Rural Areas Is An Advantage – NASPA President

By Joseph Kyei-Boateng, KUMASI
National Service Postings To The Rural Areas Is An Advantage – NASPA President
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The Ashanti Regional President of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA), Mr Prince Owusu Attah has challenged national service personnels for the 2015/2016 service year to accept posting to the rural and deprived areas considering the advantages involved.

In an interview with the Daily Graphic, he noted that apart from the fact that service persons who are posted to the rural areas get exposed to a new environment, they enjoy the pride of place to learn local languages of the people in the locality.

He further noted that while their colleagues posted to regional and district capitals are faced with high spending, service persons in the rural areas enjoy the opportunity to low spending lifestyle and could save more money.

Buttressing his point, he said living in most villages, one would not need to buy food stuffs and even if there will be any buying, the price would not be as high as in regional and district capitals comparatively.

More so, the NASPA President said rural areas were “better places” for service persons to start businesses of their own, establishing an entrepreneurship firm and investing in agriculture projects for the career building.

He said unlike in cities and towns where one does not get the opportunity to know everybody, it is easy to identify everybody in a rural area “and that alone affords the service person to build better relationships with the local people to a greater advantage of owing a portion of land for farming either free of charge or at an affordable price”.

The NASPA President acknowledged that the core business for National Service is to allow a number of youth having completed studying their first programmes at the tertiary level to serve their own country through patriotism and volunteerism.

He however, encouraged service persons who have begun their national service to accept posting to the rural and deprived areas of the Ashanti Region, mostly to the education sector to augment efforts of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in most deprived areas where trained teachers were refusing to work.

He asked that they compose themselves in a manner that would bring price to the name of National Service Scheme but refrain from any disapproved behavior that may go drag the name of the scheme in a mud and tarnish their wellbeing.

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