NYEP to weed out saboteurs in the programme

Wa, April 24, GNA - Mr Imoru Mahama, Wa Municipal Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), has warned that any person who joined the programme with the aim of engaging in actions that would sabotage or derail its success would be weeded out. He expressed regret that barely four months after the take-off of the programme, some of the beneficiaries had started making demands that the programme was incapable of coping with and urged them to stop such behaviour or withdraw voluntarily.

Mr Mahama gave this warning at the end of a two-day workshop organized at Wa by the NYEP for 206 pupil teachers engaged under the education module of the programme in the Wa Municipality. The workshop, which focused on the methodologies of teaching the various subjects and code of ethics for teachers, aimed to prepare them for effective teaching in the classrooms. He said the programme was an opportunity offered by the government to get them gainfully engaged to prepare for the future and not a regular employment, and therefore they should not copy those in regular employment or behave like them.

The Youth Employment Coordinator told them that the cheque covering their allowances for the month of March had been received and that they would be paid as soon as it was cleared by the Central Bank. In response to demands by the pupil teachers to pay them through the commercial banks, he said his outfit was not comfortable with drawing huge sums of money to pay them on the table, but once majority of them did not have accounts in the banks, they would have to contend with the current mode of payment for the time being. Mr George Hikah Benson, Upper West Regional Deputy Minister and acting Wa Municipal Chief Executive, advised them to save part of their earnings and use it to acquire higher education instead of wasting it on frivolous things.

He commended them for the enthusiasm they showed during the workshop and urged them to translate their new knowledge into practical work in the classrooms and put opponents of the programme to shame.