Help us get jobs

A group of unemployed physically challenged university graduates has called on the government to give members a special dispensation in employment, to enable them to contribute their quota to national development.
Members of the group said in spite of they having received tertiary-level education, it had been a daunting task for them to get employed.
They said while the government tended to give little attention to their plight, private employers were also unwilling to engage their services.

Petitions

Mr Koffigah said some of them struggled through the “unfavourable” conditions in the school system to complete university and, therefore, the government should not neglect them.
He said a number of petitions sent by the team to the government through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and the Chief of Staff, between January and May this year had yielded very little results.

He said though that efforts were being made by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations to get 12 of them employed at the Ghana Education Service (GES), while 14 others who were supposed to be employed by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) as promised by the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, were still unemployed.

“We went for interviews in June this year at the YEA after we wrote series of petitions to the respective ministries. The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Iddrisu, following the petitions in April, this year promised us jobs but we have not been employed as of now, ” Mr Koffigah claimed.
Another member of the group, Mr Isaac Yeboah Afari, called on the government to expedite action on their employment to give more meaning to the Disability Law.
He reiterated that if the government failed to do that the group would stage a protest until their demands were met.