Before YouStart, NABCo trainees insist that any arrears be paid.
Before YouStart is introduced, the leadership of the Ghanaian NABCO Trainees Association is pleading with the government to release their eight-month unpaid allowances.
The Nation Builders Corp (NABCo) is now in the process of enrolling some of its trainees in the yet-to-be-launched programme, according to the Association (NABTAG).
A portion of the money from the Electronic Transfer Levy will be used to pay for the GH1 billion initiative (e-levy).
The current circumstances pertaining to the welfare of NABCo trainees, however, "do not project a positive image over our horizon," stated Dennic Opoku Katakyie, National President of NABTAG, in a news release on Monday, June 27.
"For the previous eight weeks, trainees have been reporting to work as required without being paid since the mandate was made public. However, we are begging with the government to refund the arrears owed to the unhappy students since we are suffering. "We do appreciate the continuing process aimed at enrolling segment of trainees on to the yet-to-be-launched YouStart programme.
When you haven't paid NABCO trainees for the past eight months, putting them through extreme hardship, while also getting ready to launch YouStart, it doesn't convey the proper message. What useful assurance can that provide to the general public on the prospects for the YouStart?
The statement lamented the several requests for the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to step in that seemed to go unanswered.
"The president's carefree attitude toward the current circumstance is abhorrent to the core. Although we have repeatedly asked him to step in, the problem keeps getting worse.
The NABCo trainees voiced their displeasure that the current situation is not what they were promised with much emotion.
"3kom de y3n" (we are hungry), which translates as "Mr. President, we might not survive to see the economy recover."