The Youth Employment Agency, YEA, has revealed that a new sanitation module will soon be rolled out under which beneficiaries will be paid fair and deserving wages and proper structures will be instituted to ensure that beneficiaries are not shortchanged.
CEO of YEA, Justin Koduah Frimpong said the previous module’s review findings revealed that Zoomlion Ghana Limited recruited beneficiaries without recourse to the YEA Act. Additionally, there were some discrepancies in the operations of Zoomlion.
According to him, “there was no appointment letters issued to these beneficiaries, a practice we consider unacceptable. The service provider (Zoomlion), has still up to date been unable to furnish the agency with the payment records of beneficiaries on their payrollâ€.
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Justin Koduah Frimpong, explained on Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at a press conference in Accra that “each beneficiary is paid a GHS100 while GHS400 goes to the service provider as management feesâ€. For him, the development is an “affront to beneficiaries of the programmeâ€.
YEA, after this review, has directed all persons interested in working under the sanitation module to reapply by March 2018
The board of YEA has decided that managers of the sanitation module will be subjected to competitive bidding in line with the YEA Act and Legal Instrument (LI).
“Of the 38, 884 [beneficiaries under the sanitation module] most of them were recruited without recourse to the Youth Employment Agency,†the review exercise revealed.
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