Management of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) have denied claims that
the newly out doored youth employment Job Centre will become an avenue
to reward party foot soldiers and sympathisers of the governing New
Patriotic Party (NPP).
YEA as part of moves to reduce unemployment on Wednesday, 2 October 2019
launched the Job Centre and has begun providing skills to some selected
youth and connecting job seekers to employers in Ghana and beyond.
The Work Abroad Module has especially raised eyebrows amid concerns it
could lead to visa racketeering and other corrupt practices.
However, speaking to Blessed Sogah on Wednesday on current affairs
programme State of the Nation on Class91.3FM, the Deputy Chief Executive
Officer in charge of Operations at YEA, Alhaji Ibrahim Bashiru, allayed
such fears.
He charged any applicant who is refused a job opportunity on partisan grounds to report the case to the appropriate authorities.
Alhaji Bashiru said: “Since 2017 when this new management took over you
have not heard any corruption related issue. As it stands now, we’re
clear in our minds that we’ve demonstrated beyond all reasonable doubts
that you can trust this new management when it comes to matters of
corruption.
“When someone promises you a shirt you obviously will have to look at
what he’s wearing. If we’ve demonstrated and we’ve rebranded YEA and
issues of corruption have become a thing of the past you can only trust
the leadership of Justin Kodua that we’ll do this one diligently without
any issue of corruption or visa racketeering.
“I want to state here categorically that we’ve had serious
consultations, broad consultations and even if you look at our
industrial videos across the political divide this has to do with the
youth of Ghana irrespective of your political party and I want to call
on corporate society that come and join hands with YEA so we can get
decent jobs for Ghanaian youth.”
