Gov’t to employ 100k graduates from May 1 – Bawumia
Vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that the 100,000
jobs to be created under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) initiative
will be launched May 1, 2018.
NABCO is aimed at tackling graduate unemployment in Ghana and will
be launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on May Day.
The programme will operate seven modules designed to meet the
pressing needs of the nation while providing jobs for the teeming youth
who have received tertiary education but are struggling to find jobs.
Speaking at the 22nd Congregation of the University of
Education, Winneba, Dr Bawumia, said 100,000 graduates who have
completed their National Service are expected to be engaged under NABCO
this year.
While challenging the new graduates to “go out there and make a
difference”, Dr Bawumia said government is seriously engaged in thinking
through solutions to the unemployment situation, especially graduate
unemployment.
“Last year Ghana’s economy grew from 3.7% to 8.5%; that was the
fastest growing economy in the world last year. But this growth has to
translate into jobs.
“We are embarking on a new programme that the President is going to
launch on May Day, and it is targeted at graduate unemployment. It is
called the Nation Builders Corps and it is to supplement all the other
programmes run by the Youth Employment Agency and the others. The Nation
Builders Corps is going to be hiring graduates,” the vice president
opined.
Throwing further light on the new programme, Vice President Bawumia
explained: “You have 7 modules that are going to be outdoored: The Feed
Ghana module where you want to have people who would go in as agric
extension officers to help our farmers. You have the Educate Ghana
module where we want people to help in our High schools for teaching
especially science and mathematics.
The Revenue Ghana module will take
graduates into the Ghana Revenue Authority to help in the collection of
revenue. You have the Heal Ghana module where you will employ nurses who
have been sitting at home for years without jobs; we will be finding
them space in the Heal Ghana module.”
He continued: “We will have the Enterprise Ghana module where you
will assign graduates to various private sector enterprises for jobs and
skills training as well as development. Then you have the Digitise
Ghana module where graduates will be sent to the IT sector for the
Digital Ghana agenda, the transformation agenda, where they will be
attached to the NIA or to the Ghana Post or to the Birth and Death
Registry or to the Land Registry. They will be doing digitisation work
for this country.
“We also have the Governance Ghana module where people will be attached to various local authorities.
“We are beginning this and this year by the grace of God we will be recruiting 100,000 graduates.”
The Vice President indicated that the Nation Builders Corps will be
national in character, and hire graduates across the length and breathe
of the country.
“It is a broad based programme which will spread across every
constituency in this country. The minimum number of graduates per
constituency under this program that will be hired would be 300, and it
will go up to 450 depending on the size of that particular constituency
or district.
“This is a major initiative that will be launched on May 1st, and
for those who have completed their national service recruitment will
start on that day online,” he disclosed.
A total of 16,153 students received Certificates, Diplomas, First
and second Degrees and Postgraduate awards at the University’s 22nd
Congregation.
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