Acting Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has announced a firm new directive: without a Ghana Card or accreditation from the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), no graduate will be allowed to undertake national service. "If you don't have a Ghana Card, you are not allowed to do national service," he stated during an interview on Joy FM's GhanaConnect. "Ghana Card is a high-level form of identification that bars those with questionable identity from entering the system. "If you are from a school that is not properly accredited by GTEC, you should not be doing national service.
These are institutions of questionable character." The announcement forms part of a broader set of reforms aimed at cleaning up the national service scheme and eliminating ghost names from the NSA's payroll. "According to Mr.
Gyamfi, many of these systems have long been in place, but their enforcement was neglected due to what he described as "poor leadership and a lack of will." Among the new measures is mandatory biometric validation, which requires all service personnel to physically report to NSA offices every month for biometric verification before salaries are processed.
This, he said, will ensure that only those genuinely at post are paid.
