End of the road for NABCo personnel as some government agencies direct trainees go on leave
As the curtains of the three years employment contract for Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) personnel with the government draws to a close, some government agencies have instructed their NABCo employees to go on mandatory leave.
For instance, the Ghana Standards Authority has officially written to the trainees’ asking them to proceed on a two-week leave. The letter addressed to the trainees’ said “As part of the exit plan of the NABCO program which ends this month, we write to inform all NABCO trainees to proceed on two weeks mandatory leave effective Monday 2021-11–1 to 2021-11-15.”
The Authority explained that this move has been necessary for management to liaise with the NABCO secretariat to plan the way forward on retaining the trainees to work for the Authority.
However, the trainees were advised by for Executive Director of the Danquah institute Richard Ahiagbah to give their training the optimum seriousness it deserves for the training of these NABCO beneficiaries is to prepare them for the vast job market they are targeting to enter.
“It is not really a question of ‘the programme is coming to an end, what do you do for me?’ But it should be: ‘the program is coming to an end, what have you made of it?’” he said.
Mr Ahiagbah explained that it was to relieve the youth of the unemployment situation while preparing them for future jobs.
The modules created under the program were also to afford them the capacity to venture into entrepreneurship as well.
“The programme properly understood was to provide opportunities for individuals in it to build capacity and grow on that platform into other avenues,” he said.
Nation Builder Corps, the NPP-led government’s priority programme for jobs was launched on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, and its initiative was geared towards solving Ghana’s youth unemployment canker.
It is the hope that the programme, in the end, would absorb about half of the enrolled number into mainstream employment.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
