The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Pyne, says he is not surprised at naysayers who are downplaying the impact of the Nation Builder’s Corps (NABCO) initiative.
Samuel Pyne said, even before the roll-out of the project, he knew it would be met with pessimistic and cynical comments by the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
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This notwithstanding, the NPP Ashanti Region secretary said the party had enough shock absorbers to meet the NDC cynicism.
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, commissioned the, about, 100,000 beneficiaries of the NABCO programme at a ceremony held at the Black Star Square in Accra.
The programme which has recruited 100 thousand graduates from tertiary institutions across the country, has seven modules where the recruits have been distributed to work in the various districts and regions. They include the Feed Ghana, Heal Ghana, Digitize Ghana, Civic Ghana, as well as the Enterprise, Educate and Revenue Ghana modules.
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The recruits will receive a monthly stipend of GHc700.
But some critics including the NDC believe NADCO is not sustainable and just an election-winning tool.
In a rebuttal, Sam Pyne on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem Thursday said the conduct of the NDC is to be expected.
He claimed that the opposition party, hungry for power, even went to the extent of urging graduates from tertiary institutions not to register for the programme.
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The NPP man said the Akufo-Addo led government won’t be distracted from its core mandate of fulfilling their promises to Ghanaians.
Sam Pyne admonished the recruits not to consider the GHc700 stipend as free money but should work hard to earn it.