{"id":664492,"date":"2019-07-25T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Evans Opoku Bobie (middle) being assisted by Mimhene Nana Dr Yaw Adjei II (in cloth) to cut tape and present items (inset) to beneficiaries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AHAFO REGIONAL Minister and Member\nof Parliament for Asunafo North, Evan"},"modified":"2019-07-25T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:17:37","slug":"ahafo-minister-creates-jobs-for-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/25\/ahafo-minister-creates-jobs-for-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahafo Minister Creates Jobs For Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Evans Opoku Bobie (middle) being assisted by Mimhene Nana Dr Yaw Adjei II (in cloth) to cut tape and present items (inset) to beneficiaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AHAFO REGIONAL Minister and Member<br \/>\nof Parliament for Asunafo North, Evans Opoku Bobie yesterday put similes on<br \/>\nfaces of some youth in his constituency after he distributed taxis, tricycles<br \/>\nand hair dryers to them to work with to make a decent living. <\/p>\n<p>Seven taxi drivers, a tricycle<br \/>\nrider and 60 hairdressers from Mim and Goaso were beneficiaries of project.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the taxi<br \/>\ndrivers are to work and pay and later own the cars while the hairdressers got<br \/>\nthe dryers for free. <\/p>\n<p>At a short presentation ceremony at<br \/>\nMim, the minister said moneys for the purchase of the equipment were raised<br \/>\nfrom savings he started when he became an MP and made it clear that it was not<br \/>\npart of the MP\u2019s Common Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drivers are to work and pay<br \/>\nbecause more of the youth must also get to work and feed their families. The<br \/>\nproceeds from it will be used to purchase more for others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He told the people that job<br \/>\ncreation is a priority of the Akufo-Addo-led NPP administration and the introduction<br \/>\nof the initiatives like Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), Planting for Food and<br \/>\nJobs, the Ghana Card registration among others are being used to make the youth<br \/>\nemployable.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister debunked an assertion<br \/>\nby former president John Dramani\u00a0 Mahama<br \/>\nwho visited the region recently\u00a0 that<br \/>\nPresident Akufo-Addo\u00a0 has collapsed the once<br \/>\nvibrant timber company, Ayum company Limited. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a lie. If Mr.<br \/>\nMahama has forgotten, let me remind him, that in late 2015, some chiefs from<br \/>\nMim visited him (Mahama) to plead for government intervention in the<br \/>\ncompany.\u00a0 By that time, where was<br \/>\npresident Nana Addo, he quizzed?\u00a0 Rather<br \/>\nwhat Mahama destroyed is what President Akufo-Addo is resuscitating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He assured the people that government<br \/>\nhas directed the Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kyeremanten to come out with<br \/>\na time table for the re-opening of Ayum Company Limited.<\/p>\n<p>A hairdresser, Augustine Mensah who benefitted from one hairdryer was thankful to the minister for the gesture irrespective of their political affiliation, saying \u201cWe were approached as an association but not on political lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>danielyaodayee@yahoo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM Daniel Y Dayee, Mim<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evans Opoku Bobie (middle) being assisted by Mimhene Nana Dr Yaw Adjei II (in cloth) to cut tape and present items (inset) to beneficiaries AHAFO REGIONAL Minister and Member of Parliament for Asunafo North, Evans Opoku Bobie yesterday put similes on faces of some youth in his constituency after he distributed taxis, tricycles and hair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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