Kofi Baah Agyepong, YEA CEO
The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Kofi Baah Agyepong, says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo remains committed to reducing the pressure and burden of Ghanaians through creation of jobs, skills acquisitions and entrepreneurial development of the youth.
He explained that this is evidenced in the creation of over 17,000 jobs in just over the last four months by his outfit through its Community Health Worker Programme (CHWP), Prisons Office Assistants (POA), Community Protection Assistants (CPA), the YEA Job Centre, and other partnerships with the private sector.
Mr Agyepong said this when he addressed a passing-out parade of 1,064 of the second batch of CPAs beneficiaries drawn from the Bono, Ashanti, Bono East, Ahafo and the Western North regions.
He charged other agencies to refocus on creating employment, and improving conditions of service for employees.
He said YEA is poised to create extra thousands jobs before the close of 2023.
“Apart from rolling out the traditional modules, allowances of beneficiaries have now been increased to 500 cedis. There is also a deepened partnership with the diplomatic community and private sector to create more private sector-led jobs. YEAs new agenda also creates a platform for people in the technical and artisan sector with an oncoming partnership with NEIP, NVTI, GEA among others,” he stated.
Advice
To the beneficiaries under the CPAs module, the CEO advised them not to compromise on their professional integrity in the course of discharging their duties in the communities.
He added that the Agency would not hesitate to endorse sanctions to weed out any CPA personnel by the Ghana Police Service for infractions in the rules of their engagement.
“Such caution was against the background of assurance by the GPS to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U) with the Agency to give consideration and priority to CPA personnel in future recruitment into the mainstream service,” he noted.
He explained that the Agency had taken the necessary steps to clear all outstanding arrears owed beneficiaries to disabuse their minds of engaging in malfeasance.
Mr Agyepong reiterated that President Akufo-Addo’s administration had made strenuous efforts, in spite of the economic turbulence, to release funds timeously to meet the monthly stipends of the beneficiaries.
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