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According to Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, 20,000 young people in Ghana will be employed by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) through the recently introduced Business and Employment Assistance Programme (BEAP).
As part of the program, YEA will support new hires’ salaries who are hired by small and medium-sized businesses.
Since then, the government has released GHC60 million of the GHC120 million needed for the Youth Employment Agency to carry out the program.
Speaking on Monday, December 11, at the program’s official launch in Sunyani, Bono Region, Bawumia said the initiative shows the government’s commitment to lowering unemployment.
“Over the next year, an estimated 10,000 medium and small-scale enterprises across various sectors are set to benefit from this programme.”
“Additionally, 20,000 Ghanaian youth will benefit from the implementation of this initiative, this is really big, Iam particularly excited about the relief this initiative will provide to the Ghanaian youth,” Bawumia said.
The initiative, driven by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), seeks to support 10,000 businesses owned by young Ghanaians, to employ 20,000 youth, whose salaries will be paid by the YEA. This will help to sustain and grow these businesses, as well as provide job opportunities.
The Business and Employment Assistance Programme and other youth interventions under the YEA and under agencies, underline our government’s commitment to creating more jobs and opportunities to the youth, in addition to the 2.1m jobs created by the government in the past seven years in the public and private sectors respectively.
Kofi Agyepong, the chief executive officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), announced that YEA district disability officers would be assigned to replace the toll booth workers who were let go after the government decided to eliminate all road tolls.
“Everyone who was laid off from toll booths after the government eliminated all tolls on public roads and bridges will be reassigned as YEA district disability officers by the end of this year,” he stated.
This was announced by Kofi Agyepong on Monday, December 11, 2023, during the Business and Employment Assistance Programme (BEAP) launch.
After the government ended the toll system in November 2022, at least 800 toll booth employees lost their jobs.
Recall that on November 18, 2021, toll collection in Ghana came to an end.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
