The National Service Secretariat remained the only authority mandated to post prospective Service personnel to places it deemed to be in the national interest.
Mr Vincent Kuagbenu, Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), made this clarification when he addressed final year students of Ho Polytechnic during their pre-service orientation on Tuesday.
He said the Secretariat would therefore not accept any arrangements where prospective service persons reached agreement with institutions to
take them on as Service personnel.
He said such individual arrangements were undermining the reason for instituting the Scheme.
Mr Kuagbenu said the Scheme was trying to de-emphasise the deployment of service persons to the urban areas in preference to rural areas where their services would be most needed.
He advised heads of organizations who were employing people who have not undertaken their national service to desist from the practice or risk being prosecuted.
Mr Kuagbenu said names of those who had refused postings would be published in the dailies.
Mr Michael Totime, Volta Regional Director of the NSS, reminded students that the Scheme was a national call to duty which they should not fail to honour.