Pay our arrears or we hit the streets

Aggrieved Nabco Trainees Association impetrate the government and particularly the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia to settle our arrears to cushion us amid the hardship we find ourselves.

We also pray all Ghanaians including political parties and their leaders, our revered chiefs and opinion leaders, our venerated clergy, the hardworking media, and civil society organizations to add your voices to our petitions to the government to pay our arrears.

Since we received payment in December 2022, we have countenanced the exigencies of the economy and have also been in anticipation of further disbursement of funds to assuage our quagmire but to no avail.

Our expectation was even reinforced when on 7th September, 2023, the Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori Ata on GBC’s Talking Point, assured payment of Nabco Trainees by the end of September 2023.

However, the promise has not been fulfilled. Now we cannot make ends meet and our lives revert daily.

It is also pathetic how despite the substantial level of experience possessed by Nabco Trainees under the Educate Ghana Module, they were not considered in Ghana Education Service’s recent recruitment. An opportunity that could have offered jobs for some of our teeming employed Nabco Trainees.

Again, the YouStart Programme which was designed to help Nabco Trainees has not lived up to our expectations as according to our research, no Nabco Trainee has been enrolled in the programmes. We wish to emphasize that the YouStart Programme is sneaky and deem it an avenue of escape for the government.

The final straw is the payment of the allowance of Teacher and Nursing Trainees, Youth in Afforestation, and National Service Personnel snubbing Nabco Trainees.

We have endured the dereliction of the government for far too long and we wish to state unequivocally that Nabco Trainees have rolled up our sleeves and we are mobilizing ourselves to organize a series of massive demonstrations alongside other legitimate means to demand our money if the government refuses to pay us by 20th December, 2023.

We have been left in the lurch and are now disgruntled, hence our clarion call to all Ghanaians to rally behind us as we demand what is legitimately ours.

Kojo Anuonyam

President