Spread positive news about NYEP - Director

Buipe(NR), Oct. 11, GNA - Mr Hamidu Alhassan, Central Gonja District Director of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) has advised beneficiaries to tell positive stories about the programme to ensure its sustenance and not spread falsehood about it. He gave the advice when addressing the first batch of 50 Community Education Teaching Assistants (CETA), beneficiaries of the programme at Buipe on Tuesday.

About 100 teaching assistants, some of them volunteer teachers have been recruited to be posted to various communities to help improve teaching and learning.

Mr Alhassan noted that some people in the district were spreading falsehood about the programme saying that the initiative was instituted to help members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He said: "The programme invites applications from all Ghanaians who have three or more passes in the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) to be recruited into teaching and other professional fields and no one asks for political identity cards."

Mr Alhassan said the programme was in fulfilment of the NPP Government's determination to create employment for the youth and advised the unemployed who had little qualification to apply for various jobs ranging from health to the agricultural sector.

Mr Zakaria Yakubu, Central Gonja District Chief Executive, said about 1,037 youth had applied for various jobs under the programme, some of them had been recruited into teaching, health, agriculture and tourism sectors.

He said under the programme, the assembly had acquired 1,125 bags of fertilizer for distribution to farmers in the next farming season to cultivate maize, rice and cow pea to fight hunger in the district. The DCE called for effective monitoring of the teachers to sustain the programme, saying: "Your qualification has gained you the job but your poor performance and behaviour would get you out."