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In what has been described as a \u201cknee-jerk reaction\u201d, precipitated by fallouts from the FONKAR GAMES, President Mills and his Vice President John Mahama have allocated GH\u00a220 million to the ECOBRIGADE in a desperate bid to provide job for the boys. This was announced in their supplementary budget presented to Parliament last week Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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One of the accusations levelled against President Mills by his opponent Nana Konadu at the Sunyani congress was his glaring neglect of the party structures; indeed President Mills himself has stated that he is not the \u201cwelfare officer\u201d of the party.<\/p>\n

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In President Mills’ victory speech he stated that had it not been the congress he would not have known that certain things in the party were amiss.<\/p>\n

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As a result of this, an initiative that was launched in September 2009 and had not received any budgetary allocation either in the 2010 budget or the initial 2011 budget submitted by the Mills-Mahama administration to Parliament, was suddenly allocated GH\u00a220 million to \u201censure waste management at the beaches and other ecological sites while creating several jobs for the youth along the coast.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This initiative has been described by a deputy director of communications of the New Patriotic Party, Samuel Awuku, as \u201can election gimmick geared towards providing jobs for the footsoldiers of the NDC ahead of the 2012 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to the deputy director of communications, ECOBRIGADE was allocated the third largest budget in the \u201cspecific programmes\u201d funded by government aimed at providing jobs and employment opportunities for NDC footsoldiers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe allocations in the budget point to a knee jerk reaction by government. Despite touting SADA so much, it was only allocated GH\u00a25 million. The School under Trees project was allocated GH\u00a27 million, sanitation management for the whole country was allocated a measly GH\u00a215 million while ECOBRIGADE, which is solely for ensuring waste management at the beaches was given a whopping GH\u00a220 million,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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According to Sammy Awuku, this is certainly not prudent management of the economy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGhana’s tourism drive is mainly geared toward our cultural and heritage sites and not primarily on the beaches. The NDC won in most of the coastal constituencies and as such the pressure is on as they have failed to improve the lives of the people. This is a stop gap measure and what they are basically doing is ‘let’s keep them quiet and happy for the mean time.’ This is certainly unsustainable \u201c, Sammy Awuku stated.<\/p>\n

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The ZOIL ECOBRIGADE is a quasi government agency that has recruited over 10,000 people from coastal communities along the country’s four coastal regions to collect rubbish along the countries beaches. It was modelled after the National Youth Employment Programme created by the previous NPP Administration to provide jobs for unemployed youth. Under that programme, employees were offered skills training and were given a contract for two years after which they were offered job placements in the private sector to look for opportunities for themselves. Analysts are worried that the Mills-Mahama team are not looking at the issue of skills training which is what the youth need.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMerely providing jobs may solve foot soldier agitations in the short term,\u201d said a Human Resource Consultant who worked with the Kufuor Administration. \u201cBut when they have the jobs and salaries are coming in, they’ll soon realise that these jobs do not hold any future for them.<\/p>\n

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What we are seeing is that the skills training component of these programmes is lost on Mills and Mahama. Worse still NYEP and ECOBRDIGADE have become a permanent avenue for Mills and Mahama to provide unsustainable government jobs to many of the youth thrown out of a failing educational system,\u201d the consultant observed. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ghana’s payroll budget as a percentage of GDP is said to be one the highest in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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