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Digitalisation of national service operations save nation GH¢112 million

Digitalisation of the operations of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has saved the country about GH¢112 million in payments to undeserving people in the current service year, the Executive Director of the scheme, Osei Assibey Antwi, has said.  Making the disclosure during an unannounced visit by the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to the NSS head office in Accra last Monday, Antwi said the introduction of the Metric app, which combines facial recognition technology and Identity card checks for verification and validation, had so far blocked the enrolment of 14,027 potential fraudsters onto the scheme for the 2021-2022 service year. We had them (ghost names) on our list as potential service persons, but they run away and could not register because the system raised red flags and weeded them out. Read also: NPC launches advocacy documentary The digitalisation of our operations started with my predecessor and has continued since I came into office and has, indeed, saved the coun...