President John Mahama
President Mahama says he will ?firmly? enforce the findings about the embattled Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency programmes which have become fraught with corruption.
According to the President, the recommendations made by the report will BE perused with a fine-teeth comb toward restructuring the programme.
Receiving the report from the investigative team at the Flagstaff house on Tuesday, July 7, 2013, President Mahama said: ?Government will go into the report and especially, study your recommendations carefully and it is our intention to review and restructure GYEEDA radically based on the report that you have presented to ensure that the objectives for which it was set up are met and met in a timely and efficient manner and in a manner that ensures that the resources that government is committing to it give us value for money.?
He assured Ghanaians that the Government will begin, ?in the next few days, weeks?, ?implement those recommendations in a very firm manner?.
GYEEDA was set up as a flagship project to provide skills development for young people to prepare them for the world of work.
It was meant to absorb thousands of unemployed graduates and to also be a quick training programme to equip young people with skills and provide them with the materials with which they could go and start to earn a living.
The President however bemoaned that: ?Unfortunately in recent times there has been an outcry by individuals, by media institutions, by integrity organisations and other think tanks about the way GYEEDA was managed?.
He said the complaints and revelations of alleged malfeasance in the running of the programme necessitated a composition of a committee by the Minister of Youth and Sports ?to go into the whole setup?.
He noted that: ?Government is willing to invest in equipping our young people with skills and it is a good thing to do but it must be done in a way that the resource of the nation and the hard earned taxpayer?s money is used efficiently to be able to achieve that objective?.
Mr. Mahama also noted that: ?Government is willing to partner with the private sector because government alone cannot undertake all the training that is required for young people. And so it is ready to partner with the private sector but it must be done in a way that ensures that it is done with accountability in mind and probity?.
Source-RadioXYZ
