GYEEDA is not legal, according to Acting Director

Acting Executive Director of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), Kwabena Akyeampong, has indicated that the Agency lacks the necessary legal backing to fully operate.

As a result, he explains, plans are afoot to establish a legal framework for the Agency.

In this light, he reveals, a draft bill has been worked on “assiduously” by the Ministry of Youth and Sports together with the Attorney General’s Department to “fashion out what can eventually be passed into law as a framework governing GYEEDA.”

Mr. Akyeampong made these revelations on TV3’s Hot Issues over the weekend.

A stakeholders’ meeting of about 40 organisations was held last week to peruse the bill before being forwarded to Cabinet.

“You have to hold a stakeholder’s meeting or conference for people to bring in their inputs as against what has already been put down in the draft bill, so that we can completely look at all shades of opinion that should culminate in the bill being passed into law.”

President John Dramani Mahama last year imposed a moratorium on modules of the Agency, following widespread financial misappropriations cited in an investigative report.

“I think the most important thing is all of us think GYEEDA needs the law,” the former Deputy Interior Minister told host Kwesi Pratt Jnr.