[ 2016-11-25 ]

YEA announces 5000 job vacancies in Ashanti region
Government has indicated that it is looking at
employing five thousand more youth in the Ashanti
region, into the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in
the coming months.

The youth employment vehicle is targeting to
engage a hundred thousand young unemployed people
across the country in a variety of models
including youth in community health; youth in
prisons; youth in community policing; youth in
sanitation and environmental protection.

The Youth Enterprise Agency Tuesday held a durbar
for all beneficiaries of the programme in the
Ashanti region at the Ahinsan Youth Centre in
Kumasi.

The maiden event saw over thousand beneficiaries
and their coordinators from across the region in
attendance.

Speaking to Ultimate News’ Ivan Heathcote –
Fumador on the sidelines of the durbar, the Deputy
Ashanti regional minister, Andy Osei Okrah
indicated that the region has only employed a
little over 8 thousand beneficiaries out of the 12
thousand vacancies allotted to the region.

“In the case of the Ashanti region, we have been
allotted over 12 thousand. Out of that, from the
statistics we have from all the models, we have
eight thousand one hundred and fifty two (8,152)
leaving about five thousand (5000) for them to
employ in order to get to the twelve thousand,”

Mr Andy Okrah further advised the beneficiaries to
adopt a diligent attitude towards work to merit
recommendations into permanent jobs that will be
generated by President John Dramani Mahama.

Mr Okrah also assured the beneficiaries that
processes were far advanced to pay off all unpaid
allowances in models whose monthly stipends were
in arrears.

Sharing their experiences under the Employment
Modules, a beneficiary under the youth in
community nursing told Ultimate News, “we assist
the nurses and one of our core duties is in
weighing babies. I have always wanted to be a
nurse but I couldn’t pass some subjects in the
Senior high school. But they have assured us after
two years, we can be aided into a nursing training
college with our experience,”

Mohammed Ish Deen Ahmed Baba Luai, a community
teaching assistant indicated, “We help teachers
in schools to teach and train the children. I have
been a teacher but I felt I could join the scheme.
Although what we receive is just a token, we
appreciate it.”

A development planning graduate of the University
of Development Studies intimated that he joined
the Environmental Protection Officer module as a
stepping stone to higher career goals. His module
goes around institutions educating and ensuring
compliance with environmental protection
regulations.

Source - Ultimatefm

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