George Opare Addo inaugurates new YEA board, sets bold agenda for youth empowerment

The Minister of Youth Development and Empowerment, George Opare Addo, has inaugurated a caller committee for the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).

Speaking during the inuguration ceremonial connected May 7, 2025, helium called connected the squad to spearhead transformative reforms that volition signifier a brighter aboriginal for Ghana’s youth.

He described the board’s enactment arsenic a pivotal infinitesimal for younker development, emphasising the request for innovation, accountability, and measurable interaction successful addressing younker unemployment.

“This committee represents not lone a caller opening for the Youth Employment Agency but besides a committedness to shaping a brighter aboriginal for the young radical of our nation,” Opare Addo stated.

He tasked the recently sworn-in committee with undertaking a broad reappraisal of each existing YEA modules, including the arguable Youth successful Sanitation Module, operated successful collaboration with Zoomlion.

The review, helium said, should measure the impact, operational cost, and relevance of each programme to guarantee alignment with nationalist improvement goals.

Opare Addo further stressed the value of partnerships with backstage assemblage actors who stock a passionateness for younker empowerment and the necessity of timely and just compensation for each beneficiaries.

“Our extremity is not conscionable to make jobs, but to empower our younker with the skills, experience, and anticipation they request to win beyond the classroom,” helium added.

The Chairman of the board, Mutiu-Rahaman Abubakar, pledged connected behalf of the committee that they would uphold the imaginativeness and argumentation directives laid retired by the curate and the president of the republic John Dramani Mahama and would diligently enactment to fulfil the objectives of the agency.

“We are honoured by the spot placed successful america by the Minister and His Excellency the President...We judge the situation and guarantee you that we volition attack our mandate with the seriousness it deserves. We volition prosecute the argumentation absorption fixed to america religiously and guarantee that the bureau lives up to its purpose.”

He urged chap committee members to familiarise themselves with the ineligible model guiding YEA operations, stating that knowing the authorities would enrich their contributions during committee deliberations and argumentation implementation.

“The Act volition service arsenic our compass successful the boardroom, and we indispensable beryllium deliberate and effectual successful ensuring that we bash not disappoint the younker of this country, the Minister, oregon the President,” helium added.

The different members see Malik Basintale, Emma Ofori Agyemang, Derek Ofosu-Barko, Dawuda Ibrahim Braimah, Eric Mwinyele Banoeyele, Osman Abdulai Ayariga, Debra-Jane Nelson, Bright Baah Egyir.

A typical from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (not beneath the fertile of Director)

The National Youth Authority Coordinator

Two backstage assemblage representatives nominated by the minister, including astatine slightest 1 woman.

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