{"id":469046,"date":"2018-03-02T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/nss-boss-justifies-300000-expenditure-for-mit-programme\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:30:28","slug":"nss-boss-justifies-300000-expenditure-for-mit-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/nss-boss-justifies-300000-expenditure-for-mit-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS boss justifies $300,000 expenditure for MIT programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  2 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/47697965.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mustapha Ussif 1 600x330\" title=\"Mustapha Ussif 1 600x330\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Executive Director of NSS, Mustapha Ussif<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1519975828_608_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), Mustapha Ussif, has rubbished concerns from the MP for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, that the secretariat is wasting money by spending $300,000 on a training programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Ussif further clarified that the training programme engaged 17 individuals from \u201call youth agencies\u201d as well as persons from academia and corporate Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The programme involves a series of workshop sessions geared towards exploring solutions towards reducing youth unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>In Parliament on Thursday, Ras Mubarak raised issues with the amount spent on the programme which translates to about GHc 1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Eyewitness News later on, he said, \u201cas far as I am concerned, it is completely an outrage to have spent over 1.6 million for 13 officials to travel to the USA for a training programme at a time where the National service Secretariat cant even meet its obligations as far as paying the allowance of service personnel are concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MP also said there was some policy incoherence because Ghana has \u201cother agencies of government whose business it is to build the capacity of youth and provide them with training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Workshops are to tackle unemployment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ussif, however, defended the move to resort to MIT saying the government was responding to Ghana\u2019s unemployment problem and it believed the series of workshop\u2019s at MIT presented a solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this was put together for us to have a two-year intensive workshop to come out with a module that will be feasible for sponsorship from any donor funding\u2026 all these efforts are to reduce the youth unemployment in this country,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ussif maintained further that MIT has \u201cthe potential of helping us with the research and analysis to be able to come out with a feasible module.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added 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