Serve with humility and you will go higher - YEA director tells beneficiaries

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency, Mr Nelson Owusu Ansah has advised beneficiaries of the Community Police Assistant (CPA) to serve in their utmost best and humility and they will achieve higher feet.

Addressing some 700 beneficiaries last Friday at a graduation ceremony at the Kumasi Police Training School, Mr Owusu Ansah thanked the Ghana Police Service for their commitment and support to the YEA and Ghana as a country and also congratulated the beneficiaries on their passing out.

"I thank the Ghana Police Service especially officers of the Police Training School in Kumasi for their unrelenting commitment and support to the YEA and Ghana at large. I hereby also congratulate all beneficiaries on their passing out after a three week intensive Police training, it has not been easy. However, I want to advise you to go out to your various stations of duty and work hard in humility and I can promise you, the future is bright for and you will go higher. You should count yourself very fortunate to be here. Out of over 120,000 youth who applied for this job in Ghana, only 15,000 has been selected and you should be proud and motivated to be part of the few as the last batch of recruitment."

Mr Owusu Ansah also warned the beneficiaries to be submissive to their station officers and the rules of the Ghana Police Service.

He said, "let me give this warning to you here that, you are not Police Officers and should not in any way or day behave and parade yourselves as such. You are not recruited by the Ghana Police Service but YEA. You are workers of YEA but in your case, you are privileged to be working with the Police Service. At your duty post, you shall be under the tenets of the Police Officers and any act of disregard for the rules of the Police institution shall amount to sacking you from work and in a case of any criminal abuse, you shall be dealt with according to the laws of the country. In previous cases, we've heard complains of some of your colleagues engaged in extorting monies from drivers....this is not part of your mandate and it is criminal to be engaging in such acts."

Present at the ceremony was the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, the officer in Command of the Kumasi training school, Police Officers, District Directors YEA, parent, guardians, relatives and friends of the beneficiaries.