The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has justified the dismissal of some of its personnel, and denied claims that those affected were affiliated to the National Democratic Congress.
Public Relations Officer of YEA, Awal Mohammed, they were dismissed purely on the basis that they did not have appointment letters, and not because of political vendetta as is being claimed by some critics.
He told Onua FM Wednesday that upon a headcount; some anomalies were discovered, saying “Over 2700 beneficiaries according to our findings were without appointment letters, suggesting that they were not properly appointed.
“Since they cannot justify that themselves, we have to apply the law,” he explained
Again, he said some of the YEA beneficiaries were above the required age of 35 years, noting “if the law says the youth age is between 18 to 35, then what are you doing as a beneficiary who is above the 35-year mark”
Mr Mohammed also said about 4000 beneficiaries nationwide vacated post by themselves.
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Mr Awal Mohammed[/caption]
He added that some institutions where some of the beneficiaries worked, wrote to inform YEA management that the beneficiaries have stopped working, based on which their names were removed from their database.
He thus questioned why some critics have been ascribing political motive to the dismissal of those beneficiaries.
“Those who have been engaged during the time of the past government are they also not Ghanaians, so if all these evidences are out there, why are people saying we are being vindictive” he wondered.