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Beneficiaries of the Youth in Afforestation program have reiterated the need for the government to pay them their eight-month-old allowances.<\/p>\n
Members of the group embarked on an indefinite strike on August 1<\/strong> as part of efforts to demand the payment of their locked-up funds.<\/p>\n They say, although they have held several meetings with stakeholders to demand their arrears, their issues have not yet been addressed.<\/p>\n National Secretary of the group, Ernestina Nyarko, has been narrating to Citi News<\/strong> the severe hardship some of the beneficiaries have been subjected to as a result of the situation.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom January till now, we have not been paid. It is really sad and very difficult for all of us. I can say on record that, they walk long distances to get to work. People are also being ejected from their houses because they can\u2019t pay rent\u201d, she decried.<\/p>\n The Youth in Afforestation programme was launched in 2018 in line with the government\u2019s commitment to reforestation, forest rehabilitation and forest protection activities.<\/p>\n There are about 100,000 beneficiaries of the programme across the country.<\/p>\n The Forestry Commission had assured that allowances in arrears of beneficiaries of the youth in afforestation programme will be paid.<\/p>\n But the workers keep complaining that their allowances had not been paid. According to them, some of their members are even owed up to ten months of arrears.<\/p>\n The group had insisted that its members who are made up of about 45,000 people will also lay down their tools to drum home their demands.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beneficiaries of the Youth in Afforestation program have reiterated the need for the government to pay them their eight-month-old allowances. Members of the group embarked on an indefinite strike on August 1 as part of efforts to demand the payment of their locked-up funds. They say, although they have held several meetings with stakeholders to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}