President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is set to graduate recruits of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) on Wednesday after accepting their postings.
The passing-out ceremony will take place at the Black Star in Accra.
Hundred thousand graduates have been enrolled onto the seven modules of the programme and are expected to be on it for the next three years with a monthly stipend of GH¢700.
Speaking in an interview, the Chief Executive Officer of NABCO, Dr. Anyars Ibrahim, hinted that all processes leading to the selection of the 100,000 graduates out of the over 130,000 applications received have been finalized, paving way for Wednesday’s ceremony.
Dr. Anyars was quick to add that the NABCO secretariat had to devise means of ensuring that all documents and other relevant information provided by applicants were authentic.
As a result, two critical modules – Heal Ghana and Feed Ghana – had verification done with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health respectively.
Wednesday’s graduation marks the beginning of a transformational journey for the graduates and the nation as government yet again fulfills a mandate of providing jobs to the youth of the country.
NABCO was launched by the president as part of government’s initiative to provide jobs for the country’s unemployed graduates.
The seven modules under NABCO are meant to help address the challenges facing the nation’s most pressing sectors while providing jobs to graduates who are unable to find jobs partly due to a ban on public sector employment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
They have been put on Civic Ghana, Revenue Ghana, Educate Ghana, Enterprise Ghana, Digitize Ghana, Heal Ghana and Feed Ghana modules of the programme.
Graduates from the Central, Western, Ashanti, Eastern, Volta and Greater Accra regions are expected to converge on the Black Star Square for the national ceremony while those in the farther regions like the Northern, Upper East and West and the Brong Ahafo regions are to send their representatives.
The selected 100,000 recruits, who will be graduating after several weeks of rigorous training and capacity building in their various chosen modules, are expected to exit the programme after three years.
This Dr. Anyars says will boost productivity in the various sectors and also add value to the skill and knowledge of the recruits for which they will be well-placed to be self-reliant in their entrepreneurial endeavors.
Government has also hinted that it will give priority to graduates of NABCO in the event of full-time employment in any opportunities in government institutions.
Source: 3news.com|Ghana