Fifty-seven persons who posed as National Service personnel have been arrested in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital.

He explained that payment was delayed due to some inconsistencies his outfit encountered in the process of authentication and validation of all national service personnel across the country.

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Mustapha Ussif further said in a statement that all national service personnel who did not partake in the biometric registration exercise were not captured for payment of the September, 2017 allowance.

He said that such people should visit the designated centers in Accra, Kumasi, or Tamale without any further delay, to complete their biometric registration for their names to be validated for payment of allowances due them.

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Meanwhile, the NSS has appealed to the public to assist it by providing information on imposters to the security agencies.