The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has made plans to pay out arrears of allowances to Scheme personnel for the first half of 2023.
This comes after a monthly allowance increase for National Service personnel from GH559 to GH715.57 was approved.
According to Ambrose Entsiwah Junior, the National Service Scheme’s acting head of corporate affairs, payment of the adjusted allowance will be made to personnel with a January backdate.
“We were owing them [NSS personnel] for the month of June and July together with the arrears and last Friday, we paid them the June allowances, and we are working toward paying them the arrears which had been approved by the Ministry of Finance, and we have asked them to submit their data.”
“Maximum two weeks, we will pay the arrears from January to June, and after we have paid the arrears, we will pay the July allowance with the new rate.”
In other news, according to statistics provided by the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), 186 people died in traffic accidents in July 2023.
The MTTD indicates that during that time, there was a 4.31 percent increase in the number of reports of road crashes made to the police service.
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According to the report, the number of people killed in car accidents rose by 30.07 percent during that time.
In 2023, there were 1,233 accidents involving 2,099 vehicles, 186 fatalities, and 1328 injuries.
The number of reported collisions, vehicles involved, fatalities, and injuries rose by 4.31%, 5.42%, 30.07%, and 8.76%, respectively.
Additionally, from January to July 2023, there were 8,137 reported road traffic collisions.
13,862 vehicles of all types (private, commercial, motorcycles/cycles, etc.) were involved in these collisions, and there were 10,407 casualties (1,272 fatalities/deaths and 9,135 injuries).
Throughout the period of January to June 2023, 1,086 people died in traffic accidents.
In contrast, 1,300 fatalities were reported during the same time period in 2022.
