The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi, has said the outfit is keen on implementing new policies to aid graduates who complete their mandatory service find jobs.

He noted that most of the programmes are being selected based on the current industry demands that require a skillset to propel growth and optimum income for the personnel.

In an interview on Prime Morning on Monday, February 7, he stressed that “we need to develop their skills [because] a lot of them have come out of the university and acquired knowledge but they are lacking the skills to make them employable. This is where we also want to add up to our mandate.”

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“We are seriously working to be able to be creative enough to create opportunities for the youth to get jobs to do. We are looking at five areas where we want to develop the skills of the National Service Personnel to create the employment revolution, especially in the area of agric,” he told Prime Morning host, Jay Foley.

Some of the modules being implemented by the Scheme include the GNSS/Ghana Enterprises Agency, the Stanbic Graduate Transition Support Programme (GSTP), the NSS-GTA Support and the Pathways to Sustainable Employment (PaSE) Project which is currently training 600 service personnel in mobile apps and website building skills.

Mr. Antwi revealed that “we’ve had discussions with the Paramount Chief of Kumawu who has agreed to be providing us with 200,000 acres of land for farming.”

“That is going to be a big land to do so many things; we are going to devote part for cereals, we will devote another part for cashew, another one for rubber…so a lot of activities are going to happen in the area of agriculture.

According to him, “it is not only those areas that we are looking up to because you know National Service we are good in the area of piggery and when it comes to poultry too, we are there.”

Most of the initiatives are currently running as pilot programmes and would be run as full operational modules with an increased number of personnel intakes by the beginning of the next service year.