The Savannah Regional Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Raphael Akati said a total of 215 Young individuals have been engaged by the Local Government Service since 2017.
He said 309 Youth were also recruited in the security agencies, 731 teachings and none teaching staff employed by the Ghana education service, and 220 in other government agencies in the Savannah Region alone.
Addressing the media, Mr. Raphael Akati added that the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) which came to salvage thousands of young and unemployed graduates did not leave the Yagbon land out.
According to him, the then 6 districts, 1,441 unemployed graduates have been employed.
Mr. Akati also noted that 2,100 livestock were distributed across the region through the Rearing for Food and Export program, saying “each Municipal or District had 300 livestock for its youth to rear.”
On scholarships, Mr. Akati stated that “a decisive President as Nana Akufo-Addo has leveraged the suffering of a total of 397 students and their parents in the Savannah Region with an estimated amount of over one million Ghana Cedis last academic year alone.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
