THE Brong Ahafo Regional Branch of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has, so far, deleted 1,016 names from the payroll of 6,102.
Michael Osei Boateng, the Brong Ahafo Regional Director for the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), noted that the deletion took place after an audit was carried out by the agency’s human resource over the past four months.
Michael Osei Boateng said “some beneficiaries of the YEA had vacated post but were still earning allowance, the affected persons also had no appointment letters while some of the letters did not have signature of CEO and letters had the signatures of the CEO faked,” he added.
Mr. Boateng added that some beneficiaries of the scheme in the region were also found to have been above the YEA’s age requirements, which ranges from 18 to 35 years.
“We did not sit somewhere and start deleting their names from the payroll but we met those beneficiaries face to face in an interview on their job requirement across the district,” he revealed.
He said beneficiaries, whose names were not deleted, will from this week start receiving their allowances after it had passed through the internal audit for pre-auditing.
He said the Youth and Employment Agency (YEA) will, this year, continue to enroll unemployed youth in the region, to ensure that they get something doing as promised by President Nana Addo in his campaign tour.
He stressed those, who perpetrated fraud against the state, will be handed over to the BNI to retrieve all monies they fraudulently enjoyed,” he concluded.
My problem with these deletions is when was the deletion done and when was the headcount exercise also done to effect these changes? Beneficiaries goes to work for four (4) months without allowances for you to carry out an exercise in the month of May, 2017 to ascertain that they are ghost names….where on earth does this new management want the beneficiaries to survive at their post? In my opinion, they should not be trying to score political points by cooking up stories like this. They came to meet the absence of these beneficiaries because they were unable to stand the hunger anymore and besides my investigations depicts that the new management only got the actual vacated number of beneficiaries days after making their statement on fraudulent YEA payroll by asking the transferred District Directors for the list of vacated beneficiaries for Payments to be made on Thursday 8th June, 2017….Management should work for productivity and defer from politicizing the issues of this great Agency.