Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA), Dr. John Kwaku Mensah Mawutor says the outcome of the Nation Builders Corps programme is rather going to intensify unemployment in the country as a number of trainees are coming out without any livelihoods.
His comments follow the mandatory two weeks leave announced by the NABCO secretariat as the NABCO 3 year programme is set to end soon.
“It is incumbent on the officials to come and give us the outcome of this policy. What is the purpose? They have used public money. So if the purpose of equipping them is skills, what have they achieved? How many of them gained some meaningful employment benefited from the skills acquired and have done something with them? These are things we need to hear.” He said
NABCO trainees as part of the exit plan are expected to proceed on mandatory leave from November 1, 2021, to November 15, 2021, to help the secretariat take strategies on retaining the trainees.
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Speaking on this development, Dr. Mensah Mawutor says NABCO trainees will end up still unemployed after the programme adding that NABCO has done nothing much to curb unemployment in the country.
To him, the initiative as a social initiative policy just to cushion unemployed graduates over a three-year period, and as such “they are now back to square one.”
He said the frustration of the increasing unemployment rate in the country can spell doom for the country.
Source: Lydia Sekyi Acquah/ATLFMNEWS
