Dr Mahamudu Bawumia presenting an award to a female recruit
The fourth batch of the Community Protection Programme under the Youth in Community Service and Security Module of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has passed out in Accra and four other Police Training Schools, with a call by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for them to use their newly acquired skills to assist the police to fight crime.
In all, 4,000 trainees drawn from all ten regions of Ghana passed out in the five police training schools of Tesano, Kumasi, Koforidua, Pwalugu and Ho after three weeks of intensive physical and academic training.
This is the largest intake for the Youth in Community Service and Security Module, and forms part of a total of 15,000 personnel that the YEA has planned to deploy under the module.
Addressing the passing-out parade at the National Police Training School at Tesano, Accra, on Friday, 4th May, 2018, Vice President Bawumia underscored the government’s commitment to providing the enabling environment and necessary opportunities for the youth to earn a decent living while contributing their quota to national development.
“Let me reaffirm government’s commitment to building a prosperous country on the intellect, strength, and patriotism of its young generation. This government is committed to building a country great and strong for all generations.
“The passing out of the Community Protection Personnel today only goes to enforce our commitment to solving the challenge of, and reducing of, unemployment in Ghana,” he articulated.
Government, Vice President Bawumia indicated, is also exploring other avenues for job creation to meet the growing incidence of youth unemployment, especially for graduates.
“Three days ago, His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo emphasized our government’s commitment to solving youth unemployment. The Nation Builders’ Corps (NaBCo) which is set to employ some 100,000 graduates in the fields of agriculture, ICT, revenue mobilization, healthcare delivery, education, entrepreneurship and governance, was launched in Kumasi on May 1st.
“This is a major step to solving the graduate unemployment in Ghana. This intervention will mainly focus on graduates from tertiary institutions while the Youth Employment Agency takes care of the other categories of the unemployment category who are not graduates,” the veep emphasized.
Dr Bawumia said, “It is expected that this programme will improve the police-to-citizen ratio of the country. Beneficiaries of the programme have been selected across the country to assist the police in this regard. We expect that the programme will help reduce the crime levels in the country.”