NABCO IS CREATING TENSION RATHER THAN EMPLOYMENT, APPLICANTS COMPLAINED!0

Applicants who danced at the Black Star Square

Applicants of the Nation Builders Corpse (NABCO) are highly brooding over the flagship initiative of the NPP government describing it as tension initiative rather than a social intervention to create employment for the youth.

During an encounter with the media, some of the applicants who have not been notified by the NABCO Secretariat bemoaned that the secretariat published on the NABCO portal that by 31st October all the 90,000 qualified applicants would receive their placement alert message as they were working in batches to place the applicants in their preferred module which to the applicants was to no avail.
They said, they have waited till second November and none of them has been notified adding that when they query their various coordinators on NABCO platforms they fail to give them feedback.

Adams Justice complained that their various WhatsApp administrators have blocked them on their whatsapp group to refrain them from voicing out their grievances.

“We have been blocked on LaDadeKotopon (LaDma) district whatsapp group so the admin is the only person who can talk on the platform and it hurts us that things have to turn out this way,” he complained.

The aggrieved trainees explained that the applicants who received their placements were under only three modules; Educate Ghana, Feed Ghana and Heal Ghana but the other four modules (Revenue Ghana, Civic Ghana, Digitise Ghana and Enterprise Ghana) have not received their placement during and after the deadline.

Speaking with some of the applicants who were given their placements, they also expressed worry that they don’t even know their fate and how the employment under Nabco was going to be.

According to some Northern Region applicants who received their placements at Tamale Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) opined that they were told to report to work on Thursday first November and when they reported the Ministry was not even aware of their coming.
Kofi Kyei a trainee who got Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) from his experience said all indications suggested to him that the programme would start in January.

Meanwhile the president, H.E Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo  led a passing out ceremony on October 17th at the Black Star square communicating to Ghanaians that his government has employed 100, 000 youth under the Nabco module to help curb the spate of unemployment in the country.

However from the interviews with the applicants they said they were even compelled to grace the occasion at the independence square with the mindset that they were going to receive their placement letters on that day.

Some even shed tears that they had to resign from their menial jobs to follow NABCO in order to get the employable skills that they wanted in their job field, expressing disappointment that they were merely used to initiate a political game rather than employment.

They however called on the media to intervene in order to reveal the truth on the ground to Ghanaians so that the president acts fast rather than leaving the secretariat to manipulate the NABCO system for their own personal gain.

According to the CEO, Dr. Ibrahim Anyars a total of 44366 trainees have been placed so far across the country. Out of this number, 29407 have been placed to Ghana Education Service, 1487 to GIFEC, 5813 to the Ministry of Health, 484 to the National Identification Authority, 78 to the Inter Ministerial Committee on illegal Mining and 439 have been posted to the NABCO offices across the country as Research and Training Corp.

Dr.Frimpong, Deputy NABCO Coordinator

Explaining the reason for the reduction, the Deputy NABCO Coordinator, Dr Kojo Frimpong speaking at 3FM’s Sunrise show adduced that some applicants were withdrawing from the programme because they had better opportunities while others were not comfortable with the districts they were posted to.

Report by Joyceline Natally Cudjoe.