The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) is to recruit 4,500 unemployed graduates for a two-year internship programme.
The module aims at providing the requisite on- the-job training experience to propel them for the job market.
The module would be rolled out in December, 2016 throughout the country in which 4,500 unemployed graduates would be engaged for the start with monthly allowances.
The Eastern Regional Director of YEA, Mr. Mohammed Pelpuo, said this at a press conference in Koforidua, the Eastern regional capital.
Mr. Pelpuo explained that the module would prepare graduates to acquire the requisite job experiences in their field of studies to enable them to meet the demands of employers.
He also announced that several thousands of youth were going to be recruited from November to December in trade and vocation, and with the NVTI, Youth in Entrepreneurship, Green Ghana, and in textile production.
The Regional Director mentioned that a total of 6,501 youth had been recruited into various modules in the region this year.
He explained that 554 youth had been recruited into the Community Policing Assistant modules, while 241 had been recruited into the Prison Service Assistant module. The rest are
Community Fire prevention assistant (241), Community Health workers (2347), E-health workers (200), Coastal sanitation assistants (200), Youth in Arabic (250), Environmental Protection Assistants in Marine Technician (290) and 2172 Youth Community Teaching Assistant.
Meanwhile, the Youth Employment Agency is blaming errors during registration processes by beneficiaries recruited into various modules under the agency for the delay in payment of their monthly allowances.
Some beneficiaries in the Eastern Region have been complaining over non-payment of wages since their recruitment into the agency some months ago.
However, according to Mr Pelpuo, supplementary payments were being processed to be paid to the recruits while certain errors were being corrected.
“The only thing that sort of stalled things was the stoppage of payment of beneficiaries for a time to make sure that their particulars were intact, because without the particulars there is no way we will be able to pay the beneficiaries.
“It is so worrying that some of the beneficiaries did not get it right during the registration or even opening of their accounts.
“We have to stop to correct these errors in order that the beneficiaries get their monies,” he said.
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