Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Employment Committee, Richard Quashigah has downplayed the significance of government’s Nation Builders Corps (NaBCO), describing it as mediocre.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr Quashigah said the government had only rolled out a repeated initiative.
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“I think clearly this programme is nothing to celebrate. Those celebrating it are celebrating nothing but mediocrity. First of all, it is nothing innovative. It was something that was carved out of the existing YEA programme…I do not think it will wash. There is nothing glamorous about this, yet the President made a lot of fanfare about it”.
The NABCO is an initiative introduced by government as part of its commitment towards addressing the high youth unemployment in the country through which 100,000 recruits of NABCO successfully passed out on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 in Accra.
Mr Quashigah also wondered why graduates on the NaBCo programme were being taken through another form of training aside from the one they had already undertaken.
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“We are talking about 90,000 young people but they are saying it is 100,000. Granted that it is 100,000 young people, is this something that will give these people equal pay, especially for the kind of work that they will be doing for when you look at those in the health sector as Nurses.”
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“We know there is a gap of about 50,000 required in the health service, meanwhile there are 32,000 already out there and theirs is for government to sign a contract with them so that they can be engaged, and now you want those who are already professionals who have gone through the rudiments of effective training to undergo training again. What kind of training do they need again? These people will be going through the programme already de-motivated,” he said.
