Aspiring National Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sammi Awuku has stated that panic NDC is the brain behind the nurses ‘unemployed agitation against government to tear NaBCo programme.
according to him, they know the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) is one of the president good intervention which will soon collapse their party come 2020.
Speaking on Okay Fm's Ade Akye Abia Programme, Mr. Awuku who doubles as the Board Chairman of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) expressed his profound gratitude for His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo for such a good initiative to help address the graduate unemployment situation in the country.
He indicated how the President is by all standards doing everything possible to support the graduate youth employment in the country.
“The President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo is a genius and a creative thinker and NABCO is one of his masterstrokes that he has used to finish the NDC in advance.
The NDC knows what this programme, which is engaging thousands of graduates and nurses to be trained and deployed in various sectors can do and thus wants to shred the programme apart by engaging these nurses to demonstrate.
Nonetheless, i will be meeting them tomorrow have their challenges address.
He added that measures are being put in place to get the nurses financially cleared from the Ministry of Finance to enable them get employed at the various health institutions across the country.
The Supremo Sammi Awuku pleaded with the nurses to permanently to stop to the various demonstrations and picketing at the Health Ministry and accept the government's initiative because he is confident that the policies being rolled out by government will improve their living conditions.
Background
Angry unemployed nurses in Ghana hit the streets of Accra on Monday to register their displeasure and frustration at President Akufo-Addo’s decision to employ them under the Nation Builders’ Corps (NaBCo) programme.
The agitated nurses who are members of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainee Association numbering over hundred marched in protest against government’s decision to enroll some of them on the Heal Ghana module under the NaBCo initiative with a monthly salary of GHC700.
According to the nurses, it was an insult to their profession and very discriminatory thus they want the better policy which would be fair and equal.
The nurses marched through the principal streets of Accra, from the Obra Spot at Kwame Nkrumah Circle passing through Adaraka, Makola, Tema Station and ended at the Accra Art Center.
The government has however explained that unemployed nurses who sign unto the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) will still be posted given when they eventually receive financial clearance from the Finance Ministry.
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