A member of parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has charged the New Patriotic Party(NPP) under the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration’s National Buildings Corps (NABCO) initiative as a flawed strategy to tackle unemployment amongst the youth.
According to him, most of the trainees under the programme, who were posted to government agencies, were paid for no work done.
Speaking to some Ghanaians in Nevada, USA, in an audio-visual shared by Nsem Pii TV, Ken Agyapong said that the government should have used the money for the programme to establish factories that will provide decent employment to Ghanaian youth.
“The youth must take their destiny into their own hands, (but) then again, what policy did we implement (to help with unemployment)? I think that we made was with the introduction of NABCO.
“NABCO trainees were posted to government offices and ministries where they were doing nothing and being paid GH¢700 every month.
“The money the government used (for NABCO) could have been used to establish industries that could have provided 20,000 permanent employment out of the 100,000 trainees to reduce the number of unemployed youth,” he said in Twi.
However, the Assin Fosu MP, also looking for a flagbearaship position, noted that President Akufo-Addo should be praised for some of his policy initiatives, including the One District, One Factory programme.
Meanwhile, Former trainees under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) have given the government a one-week ultimatum to pay their 9-month arrears.
