National Service Into Pure Water Business

Story: W.K. Adusu

In pursuance of creating more job avenues so as to imbibe personnel with more skills into the entrepreneurship market, the Ghana National Service Scheme (NSS) is making moves into water bottling project, at Medie near Amasama, in the Greater Accra Region.

The project which due to lack of funds was halted to a stand-still, has potential of generating employment for about fifty (50) graduates.

In view of that, the Acting Executive Director for GNSS, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, said the outfit is pursuing a public-private partnership with some investors to revive the project.

He stated further that over the years, the scheme has provided portable water to some communities through borehole drilling. Some of the beneficiary communities mentioned, are  Adenta Municipality, Akuse, Amasama and Pantang Hospital. NSS, he said, is committed to providing vital services to needy communities, especially institutions, he said.

By this, with the support of the NSS Board, Alhaji Imoro intimated that the scheme helps the Ministry of Education to improve upon school health, especially, at the basic education level; hence, the outfit is renovating the National service rig to enable it carry out the task.

The NSS in collaboration with UNICEF has started a pilot on a complementary basic school in three districts. This programme targets the dropped-out school children; to provide them with access to formal education.

In view of that, about 45 service personnel were deployed to three of these districts. The beneficiary districts include Komenda in the Central Region, Affram in the Eastern Region and Savelugu in the Northern Region.

Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, in recounting the scheme’s challenges, said in the last three years, the institution had recorded a number of impersonations, fraud and extortions by some unscrupulous people who attempted to take advantage of desperate service personnel who desired to change their postings.

In light of this, he advised personnel to beware of people who would made payment for any change of postings. And asked that if any personnel want change of posting, the person should follow the due process which demands no payment, Alhaji Imoro added.