The Coalition of Community Police Assistants has called on the Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Kofi Baah Agyepong, to put in place measures that will allow hardworking beneficiaries of the agency’s youth engagement modules to be employed by government institutions.
The plea is informed by their past experiences where beneficiaries of the modules including Community Health Workers (CHWs), Prison Service Assistants (PSAs) and the Community Police Assistants, exited the programmes without plans by the government to integrate them fully and permanently into their mother institutions.
In a statement issued by the coalition and signed by the National President, Seth Sakyi Boateng and the National Secretary, Emmanuel opoku Ayeh, the beneficiaries hope that Mr Kofi Baah Agyepong would “sign a proper and legal memorandum of understanding (MOU) with such government institutions” in effect for the good of the beneficiaries going forward.
They are positive that when such is done, the initiative “will enable the beneficiaries dream of becoming world best come through, unlike the previous beneficiaries who have lost their dreams of joining their mother institutions and are jobless now.”
Meanwhile, they have expressed gratitude to the YEA Chief Executive for the efforts made towards rekindling the youth employment Act 2015 (Act 887), without which the acquisition of skills and knowledge through training and internship modules would be near impossible.
