Public Relations Officer of the National Service Secretariat(NSS), Mr. Ambrose Entiwa has explained that the initiative to inculcate 6 months of military into next year’s scheme is to make personnel more patriotic and nationalist.

This remark follows a disclosure made by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Dominic Nitiwul after his appearance before the Public Accounts Committee over the 2015 Auditor General’s Report.

The Minister revealed that as part of national service scheme next year, 10,000 national service personnel would be selected to embark on military training.

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Mr. Nitiwul explained that the leaders of the National Service Scheme have already written to the military to inform them about the exercise.

Speaking to Radio Univers, the PRO of the scheme said the rationale behind this initiative is  to align the personnel into the ‘Ghana first’ mentality of the military.

“We have a number of young people coming out of the university and they need some form of orientation towards putting Ghana first. So many things have gone wrong because of our own orientation as individuals” Mr. Entiwa explained.

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He affirmed that such a training would mean that a great number of young people who would be trained would be discipline and forward-pushers of the national agenda.

Mr. Entiwa also clarified that the collaboration with the Ministry of Defense and the Secretariat to undertake this program was to suggest that the our educational system had failed to disciple students but this training would create an alternate avenue in instilling nationalism into young Ghanaians.

“When you are born out of school, you are going into the society as a fresh graduate you be reoriented so that you will learn to put the country first”, he said.

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Meanwhile, Mr. Entiwa further revealed the intention of the Military to camp the selected few who would be going through the half year military training.

“The military will normally not allow you to stay in your house and come and go back. They’ll want to camp you and take you through rigorous exercise. Camping also helps to instill that kind of discipline”, Mr. Entsiwa explained.