THE National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) spends GH¢4 million (¢40 billion old cedis) monthly as emolument on beneficiaries nationwide, Mr Pele Abuga, National Co-ordinator of the programme, has disclosed.
He said following the huge expenditure, the NYEP was presently owing the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) GH¢18 million (¢180 billion old cedis).
Mr Abuga Pele made these disclosures here on Monday at a day’s orientation workshop for co-ordinators in the Upper East Region, aimed among other things, at giving participants an insight into the role expected of them.
He tasked the co-ordinators to get rid of all ghost names on their payroll by the end of November.
He announced that all beneficiaries of the NYEP would be re-registered and work attendance books kept for each model to help get rid of the ghost names.
He said the programme would recruit 40,000 youths into the various models before the end of the year.
Mr Abuga Pele emphasised that the programme was designed to accommodate every beneficiary for two years in order to prepare him or her for mainstream employment during the period, after which the beneficiary would be laid off.
Stating that efforts were being made to stop the importation of canned tomatoes into the country, Mr Abuga said the Ministry of Food and Agriculture was talking with Labianka Tomato Factory at Tema to assist it to buy the produce of more than 100,000 farmers.
He urged the co-ordinators to be serious with their work and warned that anybody found wanting would be dismissed.
Mr Mark Woyongo, the Regional Minister, in a welcome address, said the NYEP was established to solve the nation’s unemployment problem, especially among the youth.
He told the coordinators that their work would be monitored frequently to ensure that the region had value for money with regard to their work.
Mr Roger Abolimbisa, a member of the NYEP Monitoring team at the head office and Chief Maasu, Deputy Co-ordinator, Communication and Research, also at the NYEP head office were the resource persons at the workshop.
He said following the huge expenditure, the NYEP was presently owing the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) GH¢18 million (¢180 billion old cedis).
Mr Abuga Pele made these disclosures here on Monday at a day’s orientation workshop for co-ordinators in the Upper East Region, aimed among other things, at giving participants an insight into the role expected of them.
He tasked the co-ordinators to get rid of all ghost names on their payroll by the end of November.
He announced that all beneficiaries of the NYEP would be re-registered and work attendance books kept for each model to help get rid of the ghost names.
He said the programme would recruit 40,000 youths into the various models before the end of the year.
Mr Abuga Pele emphasised that the programme was designed to accommodate every beneficiary for two years in order to prepare him or her for mainstream employment during the period, after which the beneficiary would be laid off.
Stating that efforts were being made to stop the importation of canned tomatoes into the country, Mr Abuga said the Ministry of Food and Agriculture was talking with Labianka Tomato Factory at Tema to assist it to buy the produce of more than 100,000 farmers.
He urged the co-ordinators to be serious with their work and warned that anybody found wanting would be dismissed.
Mr Mark Woyongo, the Regional Minister, in a welcome address, said the NYEP was established to solve the nation’s unemployment problem, especially among the youth.
He told the coordinators that their work would be monitored frequently to ensure that the region had value for money with regard to their work.
Mr Roger Abolimbisa, a member of the NYEP Monitoring team at the head office and Chief Maasu, Deputy Co-ordinator, Communication and Research, also at the NYEP head office were the resource persons at the workshop.
