NYUPED appeals to govt to rescind decision on GYEEDA
The Northern Youth for Peace and Development (NYUPED ) has appealed to the government to rescind its decision on the abrogation of the GYEEDA contract.
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According to the group, the contract was a good idea which would offer hundreds of thousands of youth the opportunity to acquire employable skills.
In a press statement issued at Bolgatanga recently, Prince Hardi Adams, Executive Director of the NYUPED, said the abrogation of the contract would cause hundreds of thousands of youth, especially from the most deprived three northern regions, Volta and Central regions, to miss the opportunity to acquire skills and vital education.
He said already, two thousand youth of the NYUPED had been affected due to the abrogation of the contract by the government with AGAMS Group of Companies.
According to Prince Adams, the prudent thing to do in a situation such as this was to rectify the agreement and let the AGAMS Group go ahead to provide the services for which they had been hired.
Prince Adams admitted that there were some grey areas in the terms of the contract which needed to be rectified for the smooth implementation of the programmes meant to benefit unemployed youth in the country, saying; the contract per se is not the problem.”
He explained that the government could conduct its enquiry into GYEEDA as an institution to remove the bottlenecks – as the government had now done by giving GYEEDA its core mandates and functions, but not to “throw away the bath water with the baby,” he stressed.
Prince Adams, therefore, urged the government to be mindful of the dangerous phenomenon emerging in the arena of politics and business in this country, targeting northern businessmen and politicians, if not effectively dealt with, will sooner or later draw sharp dividing lines in our national integration efforts.
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The social ramifications of that sudden action, he said, was that the youth from the northern regions, affected by such layoffs, would return to their old ways of violence and conflicts out of frustration.
The statement was signed by Prince Hardi Adams Executive Director; Mashud Andani, board chairman; Mashud Ibrahim, Clement Abagnabu and Mary Eledi, all coordinators.