Tuesday 16th October, 2018
Duayaw-Nkwanta (B/A), Oct. 16, GNA – A total
of 15,000 youth have been engaged under the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in
the country, Mr Michael Osei Boateng, the Brong-Ahafo Director of the Agency,
has said.
He said the agency intended to introduce new modules
– youth in mines, youth in sports, and youth in prisons, so that more of the
teeming unemployed youth wo
By Christopher Tetteh, GNA
Duayaw-Nkwanta (B/A), Oct. 16, GNA – A total
of 15,000 youth have been engaged under the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in
the country, Mr Michael Osei Boateng, the Brong-Ahafo Director of the Agency,
has said.
He said the agency intended to introduce new modules
– youth in mines, youth in sports, and youth in prisons, so that more of the
teeming unemployed youth would be engaged to enhance their socio-economic
livelihood.
Mr Osei said this in an interview with the
Ghana News Agency, on the sidelines of separate ceremonies to present uniforms
to newly recruited Community Protection Assistants (CPAs) at Duayaw-Nkwanta in
the Tano North and Sunyani Municipalities.
He said more than 200 of the CPAs had been
engaged in the Tano North Municipality advised them to be disciplined and avoid
alcoholism.
Mr Mohammed IBN Ahmed, the Sunyani Municipal
Director of the YEA, said this year alone the agency has engaged 88 youth under
the CPA module.
GNA