A member of the governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Upper East Regional Communication Team, Samuel Akonga, has opined that the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) programme which was introduced by the NPP government in 2018 has helped some beneficiaries start their own businesses.
The NABCO programme was a government initiative to address graduate unemployment and provide training for young men and women who graduated from tertiary institutions. The training was to help the graduates gain experience that will put them in a better position to acquire permanent jobs or start their own businesses. The initiative focused on health, education, agriculture, technology, governance as well as drive revenue mobilization and collection.
The three-year programme ended on Sunday 31st October, 2021 leaving the people in dilemma as to what to do. Some organizations, like the Ghana standard Authority, have already asked NABCO trainees under its outfit to go on a two-week mandatory leave while they takes steps to draw a comprehensive exit plan for them.
Speaking to the issue on Day Break Upper East show on A1 Radio, Mr. Akonga who reiterated the success of the programme stated that, it has helped some people to open up businesses like barbering salons.
He said “I have seen people who were recruited under NABCO. They were able to, in one way or the other, saved resources and they have started their own barbering salons in town here [Bolga]. The have started their own barbering shops through NABCO.”
Meanwhile, an NDC communicator, Mr. Isaac Ayenvoa said the NABCO programme was not well thought through because some people were not placed in organisations related to their areas of study. This made it difficult for some of them to be made permanent employees at the places they were being trained.
However, government is yet to outline the next move for NABCO trainees whose contract expired last month.
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