NPP youth dissatisfied with policy
The National Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed dissatisfaction with what they call the poor and incompetent manner in which President John Mahama recently addressed certain sensitive issues bordering on the interest and welfare of the Ghanaian youth.
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Youth unemployment
The President, during his last ‘meet the press’ programme, sadly mentioned that Ghana did not have the capacity to generate statistics on youth unemployment because the government was still relying on a Ghana-World Bank collaborative programme which commenced as far back as 2007, the youth wing said.
This was contained in a statement issued to the press in Accra yesterday.
It described as shameful the fact that after some eight years, the said collaboration had yielded no positive results, as youth unemployment had been left to chance and “we fear for the security of Ghana’’.
It said it was instructive to note that the current National Employment Policy launched by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government in 2015 (seven years into office) was without an action or implementation plan and “we find that worrying’’.
Youth Employment Agency (YEA)
The statement said the revelation made by JOY FM’s investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure, that close to GH¢1 million was spent on just one foreign trip by a four-member government delegation to an international conference in Switzerland was mind-boggling.
It said the group had sighted letters and, indeed, the sector Minister, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, had confirmed that the trip was actually funded from the coffers of the YEA, which was recently created by the government to replace GYEEDA and that it was aware of the circumstances which characterised the creation of the YEA after GYEEDA was brought on its knees through the stinking corrupt activities of the Mahama-led NDC.
It said it was shocking that President Mahama and his government would want a similar fate to befall the newly created YEA.
It said it was sad that an agency which was created to find jobs and support the already stressed youth would neglect its core mandate and delve into frivolities such as lavish and unproductive international trips.
Conclusion
It said it was becoming increasingly clear that the government was bent on turning the noble dreams of the teeming youth of the country into nightmares.
“Let’s restore and inspire confidence by arising for change. Let’s organise and mobilise for the credible alternative that Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP present. Let’s secure our collective future by being agents of and for change,’’ the statement concluded.
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