MY NATIONAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE ...Part 2.... "The registration WAHALA"......Archibald Frempong

MY NATIONAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE ...Part 2.... "The registration WAHALA" Now all prospective national service personnels knew their fate. As if the Stress I went through in the PART 1 was not enough. At this point after knowing where I was going do my service I would have to go through a manual registration at the National Service Secretariat (NSS) Regional office in Accra. Thinking that the manual registration was going to be a formality I was wrong.  All the thousands of people posted  to places in the Greater Accra Region had to converge there to register manually. I would have to come with my appointment letter I printed from the National service Website. I woke up at 2am and funny enough used two hours to prepare. Since I knew I was going to work in a bank I obviously had to look formal even for the registration at the NSS regional office. I ironed and re-ironed same cloth several times till I realised that the dress was "tired". I live in the same neighbourhood with Gideon so we planned going together. We left the house at 3:30am that day. Luckily for us there was a straight Accra Trotro waiting on our junction Santa Maria-Sowutuom Main road). We got to the regional office Monday morning as early as 4:50am.  Am sure you may be thinking we were first to get there but you are wrong. To my astonishment, many seemed to have had same strategy of getting there early to finish early. I was jiggered and google-eyed.  I joined a queue of over hundred fellow potential National service personnels. Workers at the regional office got to work at after 7am. The queue became longer and longer by a second. The officials now started work. Interesting they had to do the registration by pen and paper. Isn't it mirthful and rib-tickling !  Although registration had started people seemed to be joining from the front hence the queue wasn't moving as expected. For 2hours I stood at one place. I was able to register at around 1pm. Also, I needed to have my appointment letter endorsed so had to leave without it and come the next day for the endorsed one by the Regional Officer of NSS. One person to endorse all the hundreds of Appointment letters. In this 21st century, Isn't it funny ! I returned for my endorsed form the next day meeting a large crowd present there to do same only to be told that the director wasn't done with the endorsements. Others were also there to go through the manual registration. We were asked to either wait or return the next day. Since I was so happy to begin the ADB experience I waited. The endorsed forms were ready at around 3:30pm that very day. Now there was a problem, a problem as to how to ensure that everyone there gets his or her endorsed form. There was no megaphone or PA system hence names would have to be mentioned one after the other. At around 4:10pm I heard my name and hence got my form. I quickly rushed to the Cedi House building thinking that was the ADB headoffice only to be told the headoffice is on the liberation road specifically, opposite Energy Bank and adjacent to the Cal Bank Headoffice. I took a taxi to the ADB headoffice from Cedi House. Thats very unusual of me. That's about a 15mins walk from Cedi House. In about 5mins I got there. A security man directed me to the receptionist. A very sweet, cherubic woman full of smiles by name Diana happened to be the receptionist. I must say she was very professional. She called someone by name Mary and asked that I go to the 1st floor. I knocked at the door to the HR's office and her very affable secretary by name Mary opened the door. I had a feeling I was the first to get there as she seemed surprised as I spoke. So therefore she took my endorsed form and made a photocopy and brought it back to me. Mary took my phone number and assured me of getting back to me.  I received a call one morning from Mary to report at the headoffice. I did as expected, my form was endorsed again but this time by Madam Akwelley Adoley Bulley, Executive Head - Human Resources. I was asked to report for an ADB National Service training on 1st October, 2014. The form was now done hence was required to send the completed form to the National Service Accra Metro District Office.

MY NATIONAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE...Part 1 by Archibald Frimpng

MY NATIONAL SERVICE EXPERIENCE ...Part 1..

My experience in this regard is one of a kind. I was in the company of my friends in one's house. We were playing a fifa soccer video game. It soon was 6pm that day and there was a radio around which happened to be on peace fm. The first news item that night was about the National Service Secretariat's release of posting. Already there had been two postponement in the posting release date. Luckily for us there was a laptop with internet around hence we all jumped unto it to check where we have been posted to. This was the last week in September, 2014.

We were three, namely; francis, gideon and myself. Gideon checked and he was  posted to Accra Breweries. Francis checked and he was posted to Pasico Ghana Ltd. Before I could say Jack the National service website went down. We could no longer open the site from the laptop. 

Friends begun to call me to ask where I was posted to, to many I told them I never knew the posting was out but to the few I pulled the wool over their eyes. I had to hoodwink them into believing that I was posted to a very good place which I will make known soon. 

I asked them same question, two were posted to Nestlé Ghana limited, four to SSNIT, GCB bank ltd, zenith Bank and access bank. After speaking with them I got into a state of jitteriness. My heart was now beating "Kigim Kigim Kigim". I was Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.

For 30mins the NSS website was down. At this point I became petrified and had to call on God. Francis and gideon were in an ecstatic and rapturous mood. They now turned to laugh at me. They made me think I will be posted to a remote area. I still kept faith in God. This was not the time for my God who has never disappointed me to do for the first time.

The website was still not back after an hour and a half. I went to my phone'a browser to try from there. Wonders they say will never end, my phone's opera mini did the magic. I checked and by the blink of an eye I knew my fate. Since I was the only one who checked, my two friends with me wanted to know where I was posted to. 

It was Agricultural Development Bank (adb)-Accra. I smiled and if my memory is right said one thing "S3 Nyame si wo hene aa atanfo ntumi nsei  wo da". We all laughed and it was time for francis to go see gideon and myself off as we had to go break the news to our various families. 

		archibald Frimpong

EC suspends registration exercise

EC suspends Registration Exercise.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has suspended the on-going
registration exercise ‘pending thorough discussion’ on the
event.
The Election management body in a statement said that it is
still considering on whether to continue with the process or not.
Political parties including the NPP, NDC and the PPP have
all complained about the registration exercise claiming they
were not informed before the body carried out the exercise.
Below is the full statement:
19th May, 2015 Continuous registration of voters put on hold
The chairman of the Electoral Commission has directed that
though continuous registration of voters is a facility under
the Law, the formal resumption of the registration must be
put on hold pending a thorough discussion of the matter with
IPAC. All district officers of the commission and the general public
are to take note of this directive and comply.
Sgned:
Christian Owusu Parry
Ag. Director, Public Affairs

Woyome Ȼ51m judgement debt state-sponsored crime – PPP - See more at: http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2015/March-16th/woyome-51m-judgement-debt-state-sponsored-crime-ppp.

Woyome Ȼ51m judgement debt state-sponsored crime – PPP Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Naa Sakwaba Akwa | faustine.akwa@myjoyonline.com Date: 16-03-2015 Time: 03:03:32:pm Member of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Charles Owusu has described circumstances under which some Ȼ51 million was paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome as a “state-sponsored crime”. He was of the view that it would be impossible for any individual to steal money from the State if they did not receive any support from the government in power. Speaking on Adom FM’s morning show ‘Dwaso Nsem’, the PPP member said the entire National Democratic Congress (NDC) should be blamed for causing the State's loss of such a huge sum of money. His comments come after a High Court last week set Mr Woyome free on two counts of causing financial loss to the State and defrauding by false pretence. The court freed the businessman on the grounds that state prosecutors were unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he had committed a crime. Many have expressed disgust at the ruling and questioned why former Attorney General Betty Mould Iddrisu and her deputy Ebo Barton-Oduro were not called to testify in court. However Charles Owusu said Mr. Woyome should not be overly criticised because he did not spend the money alone and that his acquittal and discharge is indicative of the role the NDC played in awarding such a dubious judgement debt. He indicated that the state’s failure to fully pursue the issue and retrieve the money from Mr Woyome pinpoints the role of the government and its officials. He believes that the NDC will definitely be booted out in 2016 due to the disgrace of the looting of national coffers by its own members. Government officials who were involved in the case should be arrested and prosecuted, he added. Charles Owusu also called for the separation of the Ministry of Justice from the Attorney General’s Department. This, he believes, will give the Attorney General a clear hand to deal with issues of such nature.

I held Michael Jackson's penis each night.....Dr conrad Murray

Dr. Conrad Murray says he and Michael Jackson were so tight, he would hold his penis for him.

In a bizarre, rambling interview with The Daily Mail, Murray says, "You want to know how close we were?  I held his penis every night to fit a catheter because he was incontinent at night."

Murray went on to say, "He wore dark trousers all the time because after he went to the toilet he would drip for hours."

And there's this mystery ... Murray says, "Michael didn't know how to put a condom on, so I had to do it for him."

Murray also discloses some of the things TMZ revealed years ago -- that Murray believes Michael killed himself.  Murray claims when he walked out of Michael's bedroom the day he died, "I believe he woke up, got hold of his own stash of Propofol and injected himself.  He did it too quickly and went into cardiac arrest."

And, Murray suggests, MJ's kids have 3 different fathers, and Michael isn't one of them.  Murray says, "Michael told me he never slept with Debbie Rowe."

And, Murray insists, Michael told him he had been sexually assaulted by one of his doctors while under sedation.

And this bizarre comment.  Murray suggests Michael predicted he would die on Murray's watch.  He says MJ once looked at him and said, "You know, for the rest of your life and my life our names will become inseparable."  Murray says MJ smiled and said, "I am clairvoyant."

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