The National Youth Coordinator for the Progressive People’s Party, Divine Nkrumah, has lauded the efforts of President Akufo-Addo to reduce to the barest minimum graduate unemployment which has become an albatross around the neck of the country.
Speaking on Neat 100.9FM on Monday, May 7, 2018, the youth activist of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom’s Progressive People’s Party heaped streams of commendations on President Akufo-Addo for introducing the Nation Builders Corps concept which is aimed at capturing 100,000 Ghanaian graduates who are yet to find their feet in the world of work.
‘’Any initiative that is tailored to deal with youth unemployment is a welcoming news. President Akufo-Addo must be commended for such a novel idea. In fact, I was filled with a great deal of elation when the programme was announced. We cannot continue to train our youth and when they come out of school, they become burdens on all of us. To this end, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should be commended and encouraged to do more” a happy Divine Nkrumah said.
The opposition National Democratic Congress have been boisterously vocal with their avid opposition to the announced Nation Builders Corps (NABCO). According to them, the Ghc700 monthly salary package accompanying the various modules is too meagre to be used to pay graduates, and that their certificates are worth more than Ghc700.
Many Ghanaians have expressed anger at the hypocrisy of the opposition party since they never initiated any move or moves to deal with graduate unemployment, and if a new administration has taken this bold step to alleviate the plights of these unemployed graduates, the National Democratic Congress that failed to take any action in that direction is vehemently against it.
Mr. Nkrumah had a word of advice to the NDC.
‘’The NDC have no moral justification berating or criticizing this NABCO initiative. They presided over this problem for eight years and did nothing about it, and if this government is frontally dealing with it, then they are everywhere making noise. Was Mahama not going to employ 400,000 Ghanaians to pay them Ghc300 a month? Is Ghc700 not far far better than what they were going to give to the people they were going to employ? They better shut up!’’ he admonished uncharitably.
The PPP Youth Coordinator used the occasion to appeal to the Akufo-Addo administration to give details of the exit plan of the participants. He also urged the administration to not politicize the programme by admitting only NPP-blooded unemployed graduates since that would defeat the purpose for which the initiative has been birthed.
Source: otecfmghana.com
