NABCO personnel
Yesterday, another promise to engage hundred thousand of unemployed graduates to form the nucleus of a Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) was made good; one of many so far.
It is a realization of a promise cynics wished did not come to pass at all: that is unsurprising because, after all, they told Ghanaians it was nothing but a pipe-dream.
Now that it has come to pass, we wonder what they would latch on to at this time. For the President and his Second-In-Command, it was a momentous event because the efforts put in by others to kill the dream overwhelmed the pull-down process of the enemies of the country’s progress.
The NABCO operatives marched off the square to implement the assignments bestowed upon them by the President who, of course, would be watching with an unusual keenness how things pan out.
Even as most Ghanaians watch with optimism as the NABCO operatives enter the country to conquer others with sinister motives would seek to derail the programme. Those who are directly involved in the management of the programme and the main players, the graduate employees, should be wary of such pessimists and put them to shame. This would require living up to the expectations of the founding fathers of the programme and putting the nation first.
We are excited that even as they partake in the various modules of the programme, the graduates would be imbibed with skills that can be of benefit to them even when they are disengaged from NABCO.
A new dawn is here waiting to be relished by the pioneers of this programme and the nation. What an effective means of engaging the unemployed meaningfully: the structured nature of the programme suggests a learning process to make the beneficiaries employable by the time they are off-loaded.
The key sectors could not have been bestowed with a fantastic programme which would prepare the fresh graduates with the skills required in agriculture, revenue mobilization, health, education, digitization and the private sector.
The President’s marching orders can be summed up thus: go unto the land, be fruitful and useful to society. Anything short of adhering to the foregone would be regarded as a disappointment. That should happen.
Nations are built by visionary leaders. Such leaders respond to challenges others would regard as insurmountable and therefore give up on. The duo of President Akufo-Addo and his Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has not fallen short of exhibiting the kind of leadership which passes for visionary. Exuding hope among the people of this country and rolling out novelties such as NABCO, among others, are evidential of the vision of the President and his Vice President.
In two years, for sure, grounds have been covered which for decades were not by a previous political order. The resuscitation of the railway system and an extension of it, free SHS, the reactivation of a moribund National Health Insurance Scheme, the implementation of an enhanced food and cash crop production module, among others, are strides which stand this government apart from others. That is a fact indisputable and verifiable.