Prospective NSS Personnel Won’t Be Placed on Payroll Until Biometric Validation Completion- NSA

The National Service Authority (NSA) has announced a review of the National Service Deployment process.

The subsequent batches of personnel will not be placed on the NSA payroll until they have completed biometric validation and presented themselves at assigned districts for monthly evaluation.

This will have to be done together with the user agency acceptance within a 90-day period.

“Going forward, all deployed service personnel must: Obtain user agency acceptance within the 90-day period {and} report to their respective Regional Offices with their Ghana Card for final biometric validation within the same timeframe,” it announced in a statement on February 18, 2025.

This, it said, was in line with the NSA’s transformation programme and the President’s directive to enhance transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the National Service Deployment.

Grace Period
Meanwhile, the Authority has instituted what it calls a grace period for some 6,635 personnel from the 2024/2025 service year, who, despite being posted since October 1, 2024, have not reported for their final biometric validation.

“All deployed personnel who have not yet completed their final biometric validation at their respective Regional Offices are granted a 30-day grace period, ending on March 19, 2025, to fulfil this requirement.”

Non-compliance, it said, would call for the automatic nullification of their registration and posting.

“This action aligns with NSA Act 2024 (ACT 1119), which stipulates that personnel who fail to report to their assigned agency within three months of posting are considered to have evaded service.”

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini