By Christopher Tetteh, GNA
Sunyani (Bono), April 28, GNA – Mr Mustapha Omar Copson, the Bono Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), says the Government has so far created employment opportunities for 86,000 young people nationwide.
He said many of the beneficiaries were recruited from the streets through interventions such as the YEA modules, the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), and the Government’s Adwumawura social intervention initiative.
Mr Copson encouraged unemployed youth to take advantage of the Agency’s employable skills training modules to acquire decent jobs and improve their livelihoods.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, Mr Copson said the YEA had made significant impact in the Bono Region, noting that about 3,120 young people in the region had already benefited from the Agency’s job creation and training programmes.
He said the Agency had signed agreements with the Ghana Prisons Service, the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana National Fire Service to absorb about 30 per cent of YEA trainees after completion of their training.
Mr Copson also disclosed that the Agency in the region had acquired about 1,000 acres of land at Branam in the Wenchi Municipality for commercial farming under its agribusiness initiative.
He advised young people interested in agricultural modules to register with the Agency to benefit from its agribusiness programmes.
Mr Copson noted that the Bono region had enormous economic potential, which the Agency was leveraging to create sustainable employment opportunities, and urged the youth to desist from illegal mining and channel their energy into productive economic ventures.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Lydia Kukua Asamoah