Youth Employment Agency Staff Cry Out Over Unpaid Salaries

About 300 staff of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) have taken to a press conference to express their desperation and frustration over non-payment of their salaries since December 2024.

Despite being employed permanently last year after going through the required public service processes, these staff members have not received a penny as salary due to them.

According to the staff, they were issued appointment letters dated November 29, 2024, with effect from December 1, 2024, and have been working diligently since then.

Addressing the media on Wednesday October 8, 2025,the conveyor for the group, Osei Yaw Akoto said the  CEO of YEA, Mr. Malik Basintale, had  confirmed in a zoom meeting on February 26, 2025, that the mechanization was genuinely done, but some staff were not qualified.

An audit was conducted in March 2025, but the staff are yet to hear formally from the agency on the outcome and the way forward.

The staff claim they have written formally to the CEO and their lawyer, demanding payment of all their salaries in arrears, but their efforts have been met with silence.

 “We are starving,”they lamented, citing excruciating hardships, inability to afford meals, and children being sacked from school due to non-payment of fees.

 “Is it a crime to want to serve your country?” they asked.

The situation has taken a toll on the staff, with some risking breaking their marriages due to incessant misunderstandings, and others battling with stroke.

He revealed that one of their colleagues  was even at the verge of committing suicide recently.

“This is a human right issue, this is about our survival,” he emphasized.

In a plea to the President, the staff asked for his urgent intervention to save them and their families from further starvation.

 “Mr. President, we know you are a kind and compassionate leader,” they appealed.

Source: Ghana/otecfghana.com/Jacob Agyenim Boateng, Kumasi.