The Ashanti Regional Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Brogya Genfi has described the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCO) initiative which seeks to provide a lifeline to unemployed youth as an insult.
According to him, the initiative is rather a move by the Akufo Addo-led government to deceive the youth.
“To think that it will help reduce unemployment is just a lie. I see it an insult to the youth and so they should rise up against it and ask for better conditions,” he said.
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President Akufo-Addo launched Nation Builders Corps initiative which has an objective OF utilising talents of teeming unemployed graduates who are yet to land permanent employment on Wednesday, May 1, 2018, in Kumasi.
It is expected to empower over 100,000 youth who would be hooked onto the programme.
But Mr. Brogya Genfi who is skeptical about the benefits of the initiative claiming that is not a panacea to unemployment in Ghana.
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“I don’t see this initiative as creating jobs. Nana Addo and his government promised full-time jobs and not half jobs like this. What then happens to them [beneficiaries] after this programme? It means they will come back unemployed,” he said on Accra-based Okay FM.
According to him, the Akufo-Addo administration which has failed to create job wants to use the NaBCO initiative which is not sustainable to save its face instead of tackling unemployment head-on.
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“NABCO is just a short form of Nana Addo and Bawumia company. They will employ you for a while and then when exiting from office, beneficiaries go with them. It’s not sustainable. Akufo Addo has failed woefully,” he said.