TOGETHER WE STAND: NASPA MUST NOT COMMIT THE UNPARDONABLE SIN OF ALLOWING THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) TO BE SCRAPPED UNDER THE PRETEXT OF THE PENDING LEGAL TUSSLE.

Following the suspension of the 6th Terminal Congress, you may have heard that there's going to be yet a new system to replace our time-tested, traditional structure regarding NASPA leadership. This new system, as cruel as a tyrannical monarchy, operates devoid of National Executive Committee (NEC).
That is, NEC will be abolished leaving NASPA to function only up to the Regional level.

Without a shadow of doubt, the realisation of this will be nothing but a total subversion of the provisions under the NASPA Constitution, a parody of justice and a sheer suppression of the people's will.

I shudder to say, we can continue to bury our heads in the sand, and thus, pretend that there exists no line between the Association and the National Service Scheme.
It is clear: the Association and the Scheme are intertwined in the scheme of affairs, especially when the challenges confronting both are human-related. As such, the peaceful co-existence of both is imperative!

We must therefore HOLD AN ELECTION TO GET NEW NATIONAL EXECUTIVES in place to deal with such matters as UNNECESSARY DELAY AND POOR PAYMENTS OF ALLOWANCE to all service personnel.

Hence, let these impeccable words go forth to every Tom, Dick and Harry that the survival of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) is inextricably connected to the betterment of both the service personnel and the Scheme in this context of a compulsory national service to Ghana.

With this prelude, let me make it clear that there is a palpable need for all national service personnel of goodwill and intent to RISE and DEFEND NASPA to operate at all levels including the national level.

It won't be easy, but we must not flinch from a responsibility by which generations unborn will judge us. As rightly echoed by Abraham Lincoln, "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
Let's therefore stand for the conduction of elections of National Executives. We deserve it!

May God bless us all, NASPA and Ghana!

Submitted by:

Baba Suleman A.
(NASPA President - Brong-Ahafo Region)