President receives report on GYEEDA
The government is to embark on a radical restructuring of the operations of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Authority (GYEEDA), President John Dramani Mahama has hinted.
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That, he said, was not only to ensure that the objectives for which GYEEDA was set up were met in a timely and efficient manner but also to enable the government to obtain value for money for the resources invested in the project.
President Mahama stated this when he received the report of the investigative committee set up by the Ministry of Youth and Sports to investigate the operations of GYEEDA.
He said the government would study the report and “in the next few days, weeks begin to implement those recommendations in a very firm manner”.
While thanking members of the committee for the work they had done, the President assured them that “the product of your work will be a GYEEDA that is more efficient, a GYEEDA that is better managed, a GYEEDA that is accountable to the people of Ghana and a GYEEDA that has governance practices that are up to date with modern times”.
The five-member committee was set up in April this year by the Ministry of Youth and Sports to investigate alleged corrupt deals that have characterised the operations of GYEEDA.
The committee was known as the Ministerial Impact Assessment and Review Committee and it was to review the operations of GYEEDA and make recommendations to improve the long-term viability and sustainability of the programme.
Members of the committee were Mr Ferdinand Gunn, a senior partner at Ernst and Young, as Chairman; Mr Edward Amuzu Tuinese, a lawyer and lead consultant for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ); Mr Randolph Nsor-Mbala, an accountant; Mr Kwame Edem Senanu, a management and development consultant, and Mr Mike K. Gaba, a human resource manager and representative of the Public Services Commission.
President Mahama said GYEEDA was set up as a flagship project to provide skills development for young people to prepare them for the world of work.
According to him, one of the major problems Ghana faced was that many young people graduating from the educational system were not equipped with the skills that could readily find them jobs on the labour market.
The President said the government was willing to invest in equipping Ghanaian youth with skills, but was quick to add that it needed to be done in a way that the resources of the nation and the taxpayer’s money were used efficiently to be able to achieve that objective.
