Abuga Pele, a former MP is the National Co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP)in Ghana
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday April 15, 2010
Sixteen supporting staff of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) headquarters were yesterday relocated to other sub metros within the Accra Metropolis under bizarre circumstances.
While the affected staff suspect that it is an attempt by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to subtly dismiss them from the service, Abuga Pele, National Co-ordinator of the NYEP says “it forms part of a restructuring exercise currently underway”.
In a telephone interview with Daily Guide in Accra yesterday, Mr. Pele, a former MP for Chiana Paga said “we are working to strengthen the scheme. There are a lot of staff at our head office doing practically nothing.”
He said “the districts lack quality human resources to make the scheme effective and we want to distribute them to the various districts and sub-metros to get the scheme going.”
Asked whether the affected staff are not victims of the NDC government’s mantra of ‘proceed on leave’, Mr. Pele said “that is very wrong. We are only working to make the scheme effective and as I earlier on explained to you, there are a lot of staff at the headquarters doing nothing.”
“I do not know the affected staff as perceived opposition sympathizers and what we are doing is a restructuring exercise and not the termination of appointments.”
Some of the affected staff have told the Daily Guide that although the decision was clothed in a form of transfers to the districts and sub-metros the action was clearly a dismissal of staff ranging from secretaries to messengers.
Daily Guide learnt that the affected persons were verbally asked to go the district of their choice
Also see : www.dailyguideghana.com
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